Le 20/03/2022 à 10:01, Aaron Hill a écrit :
All of those things *are* music, as far as LilyPond is concerned. It
is just that commands like \tempo have no duration, so the following
is nonsensical since the music has zero length:
\partial \tempo 4 = 90
Your "global" variable likely uses spacer rests which are providing
the length information, so the change to \partial usage ultimately
looks like this:
\partial 4 s4 => \partial s4
This removes the otherwise redundant specification of the duration.
Took me a while to realize that << \partial { s4 } { ... } >> would
work. Also, what about injecting \partial into music via \pushToTag, the
edition engraver or similar?
Generally speaking, \partial is so frequently used that I am decidedly
wary of breaking it. Like Lukas, I am not seeing clearly on the English
terminology of "partial", "anacrusis", "upbeat" and "pickup", but it
seems to me that the choice is broad enough to allow the introduction of
a separate command. I don't know if I like it. It will be more to learn
for the same thing, but it might be more convenient for cases where you
need \partial 1*5/16 and such.
Jean
