Re: LilyPond, Finale and Sibelius

[Trevor Daniels]

Jay Anderson wrote Monday, April 06, 2009 2:50 AM


> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > as long as I have anything to do with LilyPond, I will veto 
> > > changes
> > > like this that introduce inconsistent whitespace handling in the
> > > syntax. Please come up with something different. I think the 
> > > idea
> > > to use (for example) & as a place holder is much more sane.
> >
> > OK. Then I vote for a letter like `q' as a repeater for chords. 
> > `&'
> > is a bit cumbersome to type.
>
> I think I would also prefer an alphabetic character also. Note and
> rest names only include these characters already so for 
> consistency's
> sake this new 'repeat note' should also. Also after thinking about 
> it
> a bit '&' and similar characters would make some scores look even 
> more
> like line noise:
>
> <c e g>4 &2->\f &4
> <c e g>4 q2->\f q4
>
> The 'q' version to my eyes is a bit easier to read.

As I do little note entry myself I don't have a view
on the merits of q vs &, but there is another issue to
consider.  If the base chord being repeated contains
tweaks, fingering, etc, are these to be repeated too?

Trevor