Thanks for putting me right yet again. I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'resized'. <c e g> q4 is surely legal?
Best regards, Peter mailto:lilyp...@ptoye.com www.ptoye.com ------------------------- Sunday, March 7, 2021, 12:09:30 PM, David Kastrup wrote: > Peter Toye <lilyp...@ptoye.com> writes: >> I asked this question some time ago, and David Kastrup was kind enough >> to put me right. >> The problem , as you mentioned, is in the way that numbers are used >> for durations. Consider the following code: >> chord = <c e g> >> chord2= <d f a> >> c1 \chord2 >> Should the second element be interpreted as <c e g>2 or <d f a>1? I >> imagine this would confuse the lexer horribly. > The lexer follows rules. It's never confused. The user is something > different. Incidentally, chords cannot be resized, so \chord2 would be > interpreted as > <c e g> <c e g>2 > due to how isolated durations in music are interpreted. >> No doubt some rules could be written to resolve this, but it would >> need some recoding. > Durations generally don't require space separation, like with a4 and so > on. Balancing conflicting desires and requirements and consistency is > always tricky. TeX has also chosen not to admit numbers into > identifiers and people tend to complain it cramps their style.
