Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

>> Yet another alternative is to let LilyPond do the job, either using
>> simple techniques like \repeat unfold {....} or Scheme based
>> solutions like http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=390,
>> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=390 or
>> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=346.
>
> IMHO, this is visually unattractive while reading a lilypond source
> and takes far too much time to enter.  I really can't understand why
> there is so much resistance to a one-letter chord repeat item --
> ideally an unused letter like `q' or another ascii character (as the
> proposed `&').

You could adapt the parser so it stores simple_elements (or whatever
they are called) in a variable automatically (say 'r'), and you can
repeat things using \r.  This could also be the implementation
mechanism for default durations.


-- 
Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen