Re: Possible feature request for 'q' shorthand or tie syntax

[Nicolas Sceaux]

Le 20 sept. 2012 à 19:21, Graham Percival a écrit :

> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:56:02PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Jim Long <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> Please educate me if there is already a way to do this, but it
>>> appears that 'q' as a shorthand for the repetition of the
>>> previous note(s) only works for chords.  It would be handy if it
>>> worked for single notes also, specifically in ties.
>> 
>> A single note name is not that much longer to type than q.  If it is
>> really important to you, place the single note in a chord:
>> <des> is perfectly repeatable by q.
> 
> What would we lose if every note was automatically a (single-note)
> chord?

That behavior is intended, so that you can write:

  c <e g c'> g q c q g q

And the idea, if you wanted to repeat the previous single note, is
to enclose it between < >.
q repeats the last chord, not the last note.  That's why it's named
chord repetition symbol.

Nicolas