Benkő Pál <benko....@gmail.com> writes:
> 2012/9/24 Keith OHara <k-ohara5...@oco.net>:
>> Graham Percival <graham <at> percival-music.ca> writes:
>>
>>> Although mathematicians and programmers are quite
>>> comfortable with contains with 0 items inside them, this is not a
>>> particularly intuitive concept (just look at the concept of zero
>>> in the history of mathematics!)
>
> as a mathematician and programmer I find it natural that a chord
> may be empty, but I'm confused by it having zero duration -
> I'd have thought that duration is the property of the chord,
> not of its elements.
>
>>> This would allow people to write either:
>>> { c'1\< <>\! }
>>> { c'1\< z\! }
>>> The non-timed null event z would be inserted after the previous
>>> note (the c'1) is finished.
>>
>> I avoided s1*0 (maybe I subconsciously felt it was cheating) but find <>
>> extremely useful
>
> +1
>
>> and use it a lot. <>\pp^"pizz." \repeat unfold 3 c'4
>
> great to know! so long I used <> only at the end of an expression, and
> just recently I've struggled with such repeats.
> does anybody has a similar way (not a function) of marking just the first
> note with a cautionary accidental?
This is probably somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but try
{
\key fis\major
dis4
\once\accidentalStyle teaching
\repeat unfold 7 cis
}
But maybe it would make sense checking the available accidental styles
anyway: perhaps you actually want a different one throughout.
--
David Kastrup
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