On Wednesday 17 July 2002 00.39, Mark M. Wilson wrote: > I'm trying to write an eighth-note pickup to a full measure in 12/8 > time. I wrote: > \partial 11 e8 > but this doesn't work. The syntax reference didn't give an example, and > since I'm apparently an idiot, I can't figure out what kind of number or > what value I'm supposed to specify. What should follow the `\partial' ?
The total duration of the pickup measure you are inserting, in this case it's one eighth and hence \parital 8 e8 | is what you should write. If the measure would contain e.g. five eighths, it would probably be something like \partial 8*5 e8 e e e e | \parital 11 means that the pickup measure gets the length of 1/11, i.e. an 11th note, which is valid but not often used in Real Music. Erik _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user