On 7/6/06, Juergen Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
please note that \partial or \upbeat, whatever you call it, has musicologically a special meaning: the first, incomplete bar, and the last bar of a piece or of a major section of a piece (typically the bar before the next "||" bar glyph) should sum up to a complete bar. For example, if a song with 4/4 meter starts with "\partial 4 f4", the last bar should, by convention, have a total length of 3 quarter notes. Having said that, you never should use "\partial" or "\upbeat" somewhere within a piece. If lily nevertheless accepts it within a piece without issuing an error or warning, I consider this a bug.
I often use partials to allow line breaks in the middle of some bars : breakThreeFour = { \partial 2. s2. \bar "" \break \partial 4 s4 } It makes more readable music, especially when there are multiple verses. Mathieu -- Mathieu Giraud - www.magiraud.org/mathieu Please don't use my gmail account to send me private emails. _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel