Re: severe chord repetition problem

[David Kastrup]

Wilbert Berendsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Op zondag 06 december 2009 schreef David:
>
>> That, in turn, means that the more brainpower is invested in Lilypond to
>> make it do "the right thing", the harder it gets for Lilypond-reading
>> programs to get it right as well.
>
> I second this. My program Frescobaldi has a LilyPond parser that can
> understand music (transpose pitches etc.) but when the semantics of
> "q" are moving, it is difficult for such a parser to understand music
> (e.g. play notes when the cursor moves across them).
>
> (I still have a little doubt if "q", although it can save much typing,
> really contributes to a good, stable and clear LilyPond syntax.)
>
> The typing problem can also be resolved in editors: in Frescobaldi
> there is a shortcut (Ctrl+;) that repeats the last entered chord.

The editor needs to be suitably clever to have this work properly in
\relative mode.  Ok, should be sufficient to remove octave indicators
from the first chord note, so this is probably not overly hard.

-- 
David Kastrup