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Re: Issue 1067 in lilypond: Postfix syntax for repeats
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Reinhold Kainhofer |
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Re: Issue 1067 in lilypond: Postfix syntax for repeats |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:39:22 +0200 |
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Am Freitag, 30. April 2010 11:08:02 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden> writes:
> > Am Freitag, 30. April 2010 10:04:42 schrieb address@hidden:
> >> { music expression } * 4
> >> instead of
> >> \repeat unfold 4 { music expression }
> >
> > I don't think this is a good idea with this syntax: How would you
> > explain to a new user the difference between the following two:
> >
> > {c1}*4
> > c1*4
>
> 1*4 is a duration, *4 is a repeat factor. If you want to have c1
> repeated 4 times, write {c1}*4.
We understand that, because we are programmers. But try to explain that to a
musician, who hasnever written any program, so the concept of scoping via
{...} completely escapes him/her...
I'm sure as soon as this syntax is available, wewill be flooded with
questions/bug reports, why c4*4 does only print the first of the four repeated
quarter notes...
Cheers,
Reinhold
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Reinhold Kainhofer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
email: address@hidden, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
* Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/
* Edition Kainhofer Music Publishing, http://www.edition-kainhofer.com/
* LilyPond music typesetting software, http://www.lilypond.org/
- Re: Issue 1067 in lilypond: Postfix syntax for repeats, Reinhold Kainhofer, 2010/04/30
- Re: Issue 1067 in lilypond: Postfix syntax for repeats, David Kastrup, 2010/04/30
- Re: Issue 1067 in lilypond: Postfix syntax for repeats,
Reinhold Kainhofer <=
- Re: Issue 1067 in lilypond: Postfix syntax for repeats, David Kastrup, 2010/04/30
- Re: Issue 1067 in lilypond: Postfix syntax for repeats, Kieren MacMillan, 2010/04/30
- Re: Issue 1067 in lilypond: Postfix syntax for repeats, David Kastrup, 2010/04/30
- Re: Issue 1067 in lilypond: Postfix syntax for repeats, Kieren MacMillan, 2010/04/30
- Re: Issue 1067 in lilypond: Postfix syntax for repeats, David Kastrup, 2010/04/30
Re: Issue 1067 in lilypond: Postfix syntax for repeats, Valentin Villenave, 2010/04/30