Re: Issue 1067 in lilypond: Postfix syntax for repeats

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi David,

> A musician will encounter multiplicators most likely in the context of
> { R1*20 }

Agreed.

> and that _is_ already strictly incompatible with the idea of a duration
> modification since it _repeats_ the rest mark for every measure.

I'm not sure that's how it works... I personally think of it as a duration 
modification -- NOT a repeat -- where Lilypond is smart enough (see also 
"Note_heads_completion_engraver") to *display* this modified duration as 
multiple MultiMeasureRest objects. And I believe this intuition is supported by 
the way that Lilypond collects MultiMeasureRests (with \skipBars).

Cheers,
Kieren.