Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?

[Valentin Villenave]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Neil Puttock <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 29 April 2010 21:36, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
>> That would already be handled by
>>  { ...} * 4
>> which is much more intuitive than ;4

I hadn't even considered that: to me, '*' means altering durations, so
I'd expect such a syntax to work in a way similar to
http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=305

Therefore, ':' seemed much more natural (or, as Carl suggested, ';').

> You took the words straight out of my mouth. :)
>
> I'm afraid I couldn't resist testing this, so if you're interested,
> try the attached patch.

Awesome. I had no idea this would be so frigging simple :-)

I can't stand letting this patch get lost. Added as
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1067

Cheers,
Valentin