On Fri 27 Apr 2018 at 22:56:31 (+0200), Gianmaria Lari wrote: > On 27 April 2018 at 15:44, David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > > [...] > > Well, I don't know how the decision was arrived at, but my own view is > > that it's the correct one. The duration-only notation is aimed at > > people writing rhythms, and they write them for instruments that play > > notes (and pseudonotes like snare above). They don't compose rythmic > > riffs for rests and spacers. > > > > Yes, I understand the advantage for people writing rhythms. > > On 27 April 2018 at 15:45, Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Even if David K. says that could be changed, I find the current behaviour > > pretty clear and sensible from my experience. > > > > Yes, the behavior is definitely very clear. And when you know it, it also > easy! > > The disadvantage is that introduce one exception and the exception has to > be specified in the manual. But when you start learning something new, you > concentrate on essentials things not on details/exceptions. Don't know if > other people work the same but this is how does it works for me.
AFAICT the important exception that was introduced with naked durations was that c 4 notates a single note whereas c4 4 notates two. BTW although this point is explained in LM (page 23), I don't think it has made it into NR yet. Thank goodness that my own canonical style is c4 d8 e16 etc and not c 4 d 8 e 16 which makes erroneous naked durations harder to spot in the source. As a singer, naked pitches like c4 d e are the norm (ie melody), whereas naked durations c4 2. 8 are of more limited usefulness. > I'm not saying exceptions should be banned but introducing an exception > make things a bit "more difficult" and this have to be considered. I'm > speaking for me and in general terms. I have no idea if, in this specific > case, the advantages of this behaviour are greater than the disadvantages. In your own OP, I couldn't quite understand why you would prefer s8 8 8 8 over s8 s s s or s4. s8 unless you were machine-generating a variable constructed with spacers from a variable containing music. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
