Re: What is the difference between \paper and \layout blocks?

2023-01-26 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup writes: > Jean Abou Samra writes: > >> Le 14/01/2023 à 22:10, David Kastrup a écrit : >>> What should it be? >> >> >> I have no idea. My own gut feeling is that output defs need a redesign >> and reimplementation from scratch anyway. In an ideal world, we wouldn't >> even have the

Re: Explicit default duration?

2023-01-26 Thread David Kastrup
Dan Eble writes: > On Jan 26, 2023, at 12:22, David Kastrup wrote: >> >>c'' x2 >> > > That looks a lot like "twice" to me. Ugh. Well, it would be a rare syntax discussion that had everybody on the same page... -- David Kastrup

Re: Explicit default duration?

2023-01-26 Thread Dan Eble
On Jan 26, 2023, at 12:22, David Kastrup wrote: > >c'' x2 > That looks a lot like "twice" to me. — Dan

Re: Explicit default duration?

2023-01-26 Thread David Kastrup
Aaron Hill writes: > On 2023-01-26 9:57 am, David Kastrup wrote: >> Luca Fascione writes: >>> I'd think that if 'x' meant "last pitch" and 'X' meant "last >>> chord", things >>> would be real peachy. >> Not a fan of using case distinction here (doesn't help that the >> German >> accordion

Re: Explicit default duration?

2023-01-26 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2023-01-26 9:57 am, David Kastrup wrote: Luca Fascione writes: I'd think that if 'x' meant "last pitch" and 'X' meant "last chord", things would be real peachy. Not a fan of using case distinction here (doesn't help that the German accordion accompaniment notation uses c for a c major

Re: Explicit default duration?

2023-01-26 Thread David Kastrup
Luca Fascione writes: > Being it said that "ibid2" is worthy of some award somewhere, because it's > awesome, > I'd think that if 'x' meant "last pitch" and 'X' meant "last chord", things > would be real peachy. Not a fan of using case distinction here (doesn't help that the German accordion

Re: Explicit default duration?

2023-01-26 Thread Luca Fascione
Being it said that "ibid2" is worthy of some award somewhere, because it's awesome, I'd think that if 'x' meant "last pitch" and 'X' meant "last chord", things would be real peachy. Any hope to do this and phase out 'q' (which would be identical to 'X', it's just that once you have 'x', lower

Re: Explicit default duration?

2023-01-26 Thread David Kastrup
Aaron Hill writes: > On 2023-01-23 3:35 pm, David Kastrup wrote: >> p would require that there actually is a next pitch (or drum type, >> assuming that p gets specialcased like r and R). > > I feel like I am missing context from the original query. '0' seems > to only be necessary if there is