On Saturday, 20 November 1999, Tim Nowaczyk writes:
> on paper. Lilypond is also trying to be context free as well. So in 4/4
> time, for example, I should be able to type
> | c1. r2 |
What's the real advantage of this over
| c1 ~ | c2 r |
?
To some extent, I like the fact that you get what you ask for, eg
take the (to some dreaded) dotted rest issue. Want dotted rets
(eg for a 6/8 meter), enter
r4.
Want a quarter and an eight rest, use
r4 r8
> and it would show on paper as
> | c1( | )c2 r2 |
> Like I said, this is a wish list. I see a big problem with this. What
> about ...
> | c1 ( | ) c16 r16 r8 r4 |
> A new symbol waould need to be introduced to do this easly i.e.
> |c1+16 r16 r8 r4 |
> This would solve both problems that I have mentioned. I realize this
Don't understand this. You do know about the tie symbol ~?
Have you seen the tutorial
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/lilypond/input/tutorial/out-www/index.html
or reference manual, ftm?
Jan.
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