Re: Concepts that may be missing (or are at least hidden) in LilyPond

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Urs,

> I would strongly oppose to *replacing* the current approach with a container 
> based approach (I don't think you are even considering that, I just want to 
> make that clear).

+1

> What would be good to have is a notion of "select everything in measures 2-4 
> - over all possible parts" as this is something that is currently more or 
> less impossible.

Better perhaps would be “select everything from moment X to moment Y (which may 
or may not correspond to a barline in one or more voices)”.
Your example would be a proper subset of that functionality.

Cheers,
Kieren.
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