Re: Rhythm details

[David Kastrup]

Alberto Simões <address@hidden> writes:

> On 16/03/16 15:38, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Alberto Simões <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> hi
>>>
>>> I am trying to find how to typeset the rhythm in attach, but given I
>>> do not know what is its name (neither in Portuguese, English or
>>> Italian or any other language) it is getting difficult to find how to
>>> do it.
>>>
>>> Can anybody please let me know how this is called and, if you know,
>>> where in the documentation I can find how to typeset it?
>>
>> Others gave the documentation already.  Here is how to typeset it.
>>
>> {
>>    \time 3/4
>>    \repeat tremolo 12 { <d' a'>32 d'' }
>>    \repeat tremolo 12 { <d' a'>32 d''~ }
>>    <d' a' d''>4
>> }
>
> Thank you. I got some issues to find that '12' thre, but with some
> experiments I got there.

Well, the contained phrase has a length of 1/16, and you want to repeat
it until you get 3/4 (the length indicated by the notehead).
(3/4)/(1/16)=(48/4)=12.

-- 
David Kastrup