Re: Problem creating Macro on \repeat

[Mats Bengtsson]

I'm afraid you have hit a limitation in the use of #{...#}. My 
recommendation
is to change to plan B, which is described in the section on "Building 
complicated
functions" in the manual for version 2.9.x.

  /Mats

Pietro Casella wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to create something like this:
>
> blankbar = #(define-music-function (parser location x) (number?)
> #{
>     \repeat unfold $x {s1}
> #})
>
> \blankbar #56
>
> but I get the error message:
>
> > <string>:2:23: error: syntax error, unexpected NUMBER_IDENTIFIER, 
> > expecting DIGIT > or UNSIGNED
> >         \repeat unfold
> >                        \lilyvartmpa {s1}
> > error: errors found, ignoring music expression
>
>
> if I replace $x with a number I get no error. Any ideas on how to fix
> this? I already tried some other types for the x parameter but none of
> them seemed right...
>
> Thanx much
>
> Pietro
>
>
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