Simon Albrecht <[email protected]> writes: > Am 02.04.2017 um 23:56 schrieb David Kastrup: >> I have >> a hard time understanding how one can consider the visuals of >> >> { \time 2/4 r4*12 } >> { \time 2/4 R4*12 } >> >> as conveying the same semantics. > > Well, to me the semantics are ‘maintain silence for the given > period’.
That's Midi. It turns out that the typeset output conveys more information and in a different manner. > The first of your examples does have different semantics from the > second one, because anybody reading it would see a quarter rest and > lots of empty space, wondering what he should do with it, so I can’t > imagine a usecase for that actual output. Scaled rests, like scaled durations, have uses. And in the course of tuplets, they are even produced automatically. Their spacing is different from a rest with a skip IIRC, possibly also in connection with text scripts. > (A gap text, obviously, should be coded with skips.) I’m sorry if I > seem to be apodictic, I’m genuinely wondering where the flaw is in > that idea. Making previously valid input produce completely different output tends to take more than "people should have done things the way I think best anyway" reasoning. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
