Re: Issue 1067 in lilypond: Postfix syntax for repeats

[David Kastrup]

Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:

> 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).

For a real surprise, try

\score { << R1*20 d' >> }

as opposed to r1*20.  It's not exactly related, but strange.

-- 
David Kastrup