Re: Creating new operators

[Urs Liska]

Am 18.05.2014 16:32, schrieb David Kastrup:
> Philippe Baril Lecavalier <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Dear list,
> >
> > After much search, I finally found the "\repeat unfold N", but is it
> > possible with scheme to create new operators, to abbreviate things?
>
> [...]
>
> > So for
> > simplicity, could one create a new operator through scheme, like "**"?
> > Example of what I mean:
> >
> >      {c8 g e g} ** 6
> > would amount to:
> >      \repeat unfold 6 {c8 g e g}
>
> No.  The closest you can probably get is
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>
>
> But that requires a fairly recent variant of LilyPond (2.17.25 or later).

Fair enough. And writing \* is not much more than **.
And 2.17.25 is still earlier than 2.18, so that should be generally OK too.

Urs