Re: \fine, pre-process-in-final-translation-timestep & co.

[David Kastrup]

Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> writes:

> Le 09/07/2022 à 16:31, Dan Eble a écrit :
>> On Jul 8, 2022, at 13:39, Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
>>> Then, ‘cut’ the result. For MIDI, that shouldn’t be too hard: while
>>> outputting, just stop where \fine was used.
>> For the events that are simultaneous with the \fine, would you emit them or 
>> not?
>> If you would emit them, then you would emit note-on events.
>> If you would not emit them, then you would not emit note-off events.
>
> Is it a problem not to emit note-off events at the end of the piece if
> it's going to end anyway?

Unmatched events are a problem in MIDI.  MIDI processors and sequencers
working with files may to some degree try to repair such problems,
partly because they need to do so when cutting and pasting regions as
well.  But you don't get guarantees.

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David Kastrup