Re: Override duration of note

2018-02-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan 
Hi Joel,

> Perhaps a link to what the * scaling notation means might be added to its use 
> in
> 

That's not a bad idea!

Thanks,
Kieren.


Kieren MacMillan, composer
‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info
‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info


___
lilypond-user mailing list
lilypond-user@gnu.org
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Override duration of note

2018-02-23 Thread Joel C. Salomon 
On 2018-02-23 3:45 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Is there anything that could be written on this page that would make it more 
> clear?
> 

No, that’s clear enough –– when I know to look for it.  Perhaps a link
to what the * scaling notation means might be added to its use in
,
or I might just be atypical in the what I notice and what I miss.

––Joel C. Salomon

___
lilypond-user mailing list
lilypond-user@gnu.org
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Override duration of note

2018-02-23 Thread David Kastrup 
"Joel C. Salomon"  writes:

> On 2018-02-23 2:55 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
>> \new Staff \relative c'' {
>>   \once \stemDown 2.*5/6 g8
>> }
>
> So *that’s* what the * notation means. I’ve used it for multi-measure
> rests, per the documentation, but I did not understand how it worked.

It just scales the duration without changing the visuals.  Multimeasure
rests actually are untypical here in that they don't have visuals but
just look at the total duration of their length (so for them R1. is just
the same as R1*3/2), but basically all other constructs take their
visuals from the unscaled part.

*2/3 can be used to generate triplets without triplet number.

-- 
David Kastrup

___
lilypond-user mailing list
lilypond-user@gnu.org
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Override duration of note

2018-02-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan 
Hi Joel,

> So *that’s* what the * notation means. I’ve used it for multi-measure
> rests, per the documentation, but I did not understand how it worked.

Is there anything that could be written on this page that would make it more 
clear?


(I don't *think* this information needs to be moved "earlier" — i.e., into the 
Learning Manual — but maybe I'm wrong?)

Cheers,
Kieren.


Kieren MacMillan, composer
‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info
‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info


___
lilypond-user mailing list
lilypond-user@gnu.org
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Override duration of note

2018-02-23 Thread Joel C. Salomon 
On 2018-02-23 2:55 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> \new Staff \relative c'' {
>   \once \stemDown 2.*5/6 g8
> }

So *that’s* what the * notation means. I’ve used it for multi-measure
rests, per the documentation, but I did not understand how it worked.

Thanks!
––Joel C. Salomon

___
lilypond-user mailing list
lilypond-user@gnu.org
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user

Re: Override duration of note

2018-02-23 Thread Kieren MacMillan 
Hi Joel,

What about

\new Staff \relative c'' {
  \once \stemDown 2.*5/6 g8
}

?

Hope that helps!
Kieren.


Kieren MacMillan, composer
‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info
‣ email: i...@kierenmacmillan.info


___
lilypond-user mailing list
lilypond-user@gnu.org
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user