Oh. I had missed freestanding durations could be a thing. Nvm then, sorry for the noise
Luca On Fri, 21 Aug 2026, 09:02 David Kastrup, <[email protected]> wrote: > Luca Fascione <[email protected]> writes: > > > Hi folks, > > I noticed that this > > > > \score { > > \new Staff { > > f > > \relative a'4 { c } > > } > > } > > > > behaves unexpectedly (I'm using 2.24.4): it renders f3, f3, c3 in violin > > clef. > > In my head, the c3 is expected, because the \relative in this case is > > parsed like this I'm guessing > > > > f \relative { a'4 } { c } > > > > ie. an f3 in absolute mode, an a'4 in relative mode (defaulting its > > reference pitch to c3), then a one-note block in absolute mode. Except > that > > the note rendered should be a3, not f3. > > No, that is not a bug, and your understanding is wrong. \relative takes > a _pitch_ argument as its start, not a note, so this is parsed as > > \relative a' { 4 } { c } > > (braces here just for understanding, no actual sequential music is > involved for rendering F3) with 4 being a repeat of F3 since that is the > last pitch of a note appearing in context before it. You could replace > a' with a'''' and get the same result. > > Unpitched durations just take their pitch from the preceding note in the > music expression. > > -- > David Kastrup > > >
