Re: Function for note string to fraction?

[Peter Bjuhr]

On 2014-05-20 10:26, David Kastrup wrote:

Mark Polesky <address@hidden> writes:

Then you would use it like this:

\set Timing.baseMoment = #(note-to-moment "4.")

Anything wrong with

\set Timing.baseMoment = #(ly:duration-length #{ 4. #})

Ok, you need 2.19 for it, but it seems like one of the cheaper
ways to ask the parser for input.

Thanks, indeed it is cheaper. But I'm not sure if I can use it. This is part of a larger whole. Basically the user is intended to input a string with the duration, and the string will be used both for

\set Timing.baseMoment

and for markup via

\note

I'll present the script shortly...

Best
Peter