Re: Should \partial accept music instead of duration?

[Tim's Bitstream]

> On Mar 20, 2022, at 2:24 AM, Werner LEMBERG <w...@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> What about providing a new command `\upbeat` and moving `\partial`
> into oblivion?  Compare this to `\tuplet` vs. `\times`.

Perhaps this is an American jazzism, but we would refer to those as \pickup 
notes.