On Oct 15, 2010, at 6:04 AM, Colin Campbell wrote: > > I got the attached .PDF Seems to me that four times a whole note should > take up more bars than one, or at least look a whole (!) lot different > than the note to the left, IIUC it should be a longa, as in the second > staff.
You may want to re-read the section on scaling durations. Math is used to force lilypond to make a note take up the mathematically appropriate amount of time and space using the note duration you specify. So c4*x will always produce a quarter note whose horizontal space takes up the value specified by x. Accordingly, c1*4 produces a whole note whose horizontal space is equivalent to 4 whole notes, which is exactly what you get. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
