From 67e08daacdeb384724e18a31597d9d828ac40f51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trevor Daniels Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 16:23:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Doc: Issue 4309: Clarify the warning about bare durations --- Documentation/learning/common-notation.itely | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/learning/common-notation.itely b/Documentation/learning/common-notation.itely index bd0475ba82..3b7d55e94e 100644 --- a/Documentation/learning/common-notation.itely +++ b/Documentation/learning/common-notation.itely @@ -306,10 +306,10 @@ g4~ 4 c2~ | 4~ 8 a~ 2 | @end lilypond This shorthand may be useful in other places where the rhythm changes -with an unchanging pitch, but remember a bare duration will attach to -the preceding pitch, making a single note, if only white space -separates them. - +with an unchanging pitch, but remember that a bare pitch followed by a +space and a bare duration will be interpreted as a single note. In +other words, @code{c4 a 8 8} would be interpreted as @code{c4 a8 a8}, +not as @code{c4 a4 a8 a8}. Write instead @code{c4 a4 8 8 }. @node Slurs @unnumberedsubsubsec Slurs -- 2.39.2