Re: Whole measure rest in 9/4 time

[Andrew Bernard]

Hi David,

What does usable-duration-logs mean? The NR internals section says:

usable-duration-logs (list):
'(-3 -2 -1 0)
List of duration-logs that can be used in typesetting the grob.

I am aware the NR is reference not tutorial, but this entry has very little explanatory value. What do the logarithms do? Why do you set it to a list containing 0? These manual entries are not illuminating because it just says that the usable durations log list is a list of usable duration logs, and that they can be used in typesetting. It would be great of we could improve this entry at least. I am reminded of those all too common software user manuals that have an entry for File->Open saying open a file and that's it. Great.

Andrew

On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 10:43, David Sumbler <address@hidden> wrote:

\version "2.19.82"

{
  \time 9/4
  \override MultiMeasureRest.usable-duration-logs = #'(0)
  R1*9/4 |

  \numericTimeSignature \time 4/4 R1 |
}