On Jan 23, 2023, at 18:05, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Dan Eble <dan@lyric.works> writes: > >> On Jan 23, 2023, at 10:11, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: >>> >>> I am not saying that 0 is the best choice here. It merely appears to be >>> rather cheap. I thought of * and / but the first renders sequences like >>> c4*2 ambiguous and the second would at least become a mess in chord >>> mode. >> >> Can you clarify how `c4*2` would be ambiguous? (I was about to >> suggest `r*1` for your original example.) > > c4*2 could be read as c4 c4 c2 if all of 4 * 2 are interpreted as > individual durations.
I see. I was thinking not of using '*' as a duration, but of omitting the duration part of r4*1. r4 quarter rest r rest of default duration r4*2/3 quarter rest compressed to 2/3 of its duration r*2/3 rest of the default duration, compressed to 2/3 of it So r*1 would use the unscaled default duration. — Dan
