On Tuesday, 5 May 1998, Arvid =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=F8tting?= writes:
> * Jan Nieuwenhuizen
>
> > Hmm. The syntax is indeed supposed to be
> >
> > \[/3 Lei-4 se8 \]
> >
> > which i like much more, because you can see its a plet.
>
> Did that ever work?
As far as i know it has always worked. Its been used in both
the standchen examples.
Btw, a bracket (or a three or whatever) is never displayed for
lyrics, of course.
> Another thing: Whole rests have two distinct, different
> interpretations in printed music. They sometimes mean "rest the same
Yes of course. This should be (more pronounced?) in the TODO.
> amount of time as a whole note", but more often than not, they mean
> "rest one measure". This is the same thing with a 4/4 or 2/2 meter,
> of course, but when typesetting music in other meters, e.g. 3/4, I
> have had to use ugly hacks such as this (silly) example demonstrates:
>
> r = \melodic { s4 r1*1/4 s4*1/1 }
> sillytune = \melodic { \meter 3/4 ; c4 e g | \r | g4 e c }
A nice typesetting hack, i'll use that in los-toros for now!
> There's another reason for using such an ugly hack: Whole rests
> should, at least in the "whole measure rest" interpretation, be
> printed on the middle of the measure, not on the beginning (which
> would be logical, and which Lilypond does).
Jan.
