https://codereview.appspot.com/47850043/diff/40001/Documentation/changes.tely File Documentation/changes.tely (right):
https://codereview.appspot.com/47850043/diff/40001/Documentation/changes.tely#newcode69 Documentation/changes.tely:69: Well, the original is already in (since it really should go into 2.19.0), so now we can polish the wording. On 2014/01/05 02:40:56, Ian Hulin (gmail) wrote:
You can now code free-standing duration items in a music sequence to
specify a Too cumbersome. "code" rather than "write" seems strange, and "duration items" seems also awkward. Is "free-standing" a reasonably idiomatic term? "Isolated" is not all that good but was the best I came up with. The usage in Documentation/notation/rhythms.itely is Durations occuring on their own within a music sequence will take their pitches from the preceding note or chord. Maybe one should not try finding a term at all? One might write something like Durations can now be written in music expressions without an immediately preceding pitch or chord. In the score, the missing pitches will be taken from the last preceding note or chord. Hm, not much better.
This may be useful for writing rhythms to percussion parts to make the
input
more readable, or for specifying rhythms for music or scheme
functions.
Here are two examples showing how this feature makes for much more
readable
input:
That's fine. "much more readable" may be a bit of an exaggeration. But that's not the NR so we might get away with it. https://codereview.appspot.com/47850043/ _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel