Re: Possible bug with new \partial

[David Kastrup]

Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello Mats,
>
> IIUC \partial serves to insert an additional amount of time,

Nope.

> however in this example we actually need to skip a beat – thus call
> \partial with a negative duration, which is impossible :-) So you need
> to insert \set Timing.measureLength = #(ly:make-moment 3/4) before the
> second bar in your example.  Is this documented differently?

Yes.  Manually setting Timing.measureLength should never be required.
\partial does pretty much the same except with some synchronization in
order to work sensibly with multiple occurences of \partial while still
warning about bad uses.

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David Kastrup