> From: David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> > James Harkins <jamshar...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Is there a way to scale the durations of a passage of music, say, by a > > factor of 2, so that not only do the notes take twice as much time, > > but the displayed note values are also doubled? > > > > \scaleDurations does only the former, but not the latter. > > > > I'm finally sitting down to typeset a couple of mensural canons that I > > wrote some years ago, and I was hoping to enter the part that is > > imitated just once, in a variable, and then do something like: > > > > \scaleDurations #'(2 . 1) { \firstHalf } > > \shiftDurations #1 #0 \firstHalf
That was it, thanks -- except I needed \shiftDurations #-1 #0 to augment instead of diminish. The result is attached, should anyone care for a little amusement. Thanks! James -- James Harkins /// dewdrop world jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net http://www.dewdrop-world.net "Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, Sing me the universal." -- Whitman blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks
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