From: Graham Percival <graham@percival-music.ca>
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:13:28 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: Clarify long/short durations.
X-Git-Tag: release/2.11.35-1~41^2~3^2~17
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c1d299a9032e457a0f59918ac1b26ffca512914d;p=lilypond.git

Clarify long/short durations.
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diff --git a/Documentation/user/rhythms.itely b/Documentation/user/rhythms.itely
index 960b96d335..86411e8e25 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/rhythms.itely
+++ b/Documentation/user/rhythms.itely
@@ -129,6 +129,18 @@ Internals Reference: @internalsref{Dots}, and
 @internalsref{DotColumn}.
 
 
+@refbugs
+
+@c duplicated in Durations and Rests.  -gp
+There is no fundamental limit to note durations (both in terms of
+longest and shortest), but the number of glyphs is limited: there
+are flags up 64th and rests up to 128th.  At the other extreme,
+there are note heads up to longa (4x whole note) and rests up to
+maxima (8 x whole).  Since beams can be extended arbitrarily,
+beamed notes can be arbitrarily short.
+
+
+
 @node Tuplets
 @unnumberedsubsubsec Tuplets
 
@@ -525,6 +537,17 @@ rests alone.
 Internals Reference: @internalsref{Rest}.
 
 
+@refbugs
+
+@c duplicated in Durations and Rests.  -gp
+There is no fundamental limit to note durations (both in terms of
+longest and shortest), but the number of glyphs is limited: there
+are flags up 64th and rests up to 128th.  At the other extreme,
+there are note heads up to longa (4x whole note) and rests up to
+maxima (8 x whole).  Since beams can be extended arbitrarily,
+beamed notes can be arbitrarily short.
+
+
 @node Skips
 @unnumberedsubsubsec Skips