Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> writes: > Why do you use s rather than \skip if you don't want to have > LilyPond notice events? > > It's comments (questions) like that which make me feel like there are > deep, deep secrets about Lilypond that even I (after more than a > decade of heavy Lily-use) have no inkling. =) > > What's the difference? > I have ALWAYS used s and \skip "equivalently". > > Put another way, should this snippet behave differently than my first one? > > \version "2.17.13" > > global = { > \repeat "unfold" 8 { \skip 1 } > }
Uh, apparently not. Seems like I was confused about the difference between s and \skip here. To sum what differences I know of: a) s starts a Bottom context, \skip doesn't b) s can take articulations, \skip (at least syntactically) not c) s uses/sets the default duration in the parser, \skip doesn't So basically the most noticeable difference for the first point is when writing something like \new StaffGroup { \skip 1*8 \new Staff { c4 c c c } } as opposed to \new StaffGroup { s1*8 \new Staff { c4 c c c } } -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user