Re: Repeated notes

[David Kastrup]

David Sumbler <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 19:01 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> David Sumbler <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > 
>> > Is there a quick way to write repeated notes?
>> > 
>> > I know that I can write 
>> > 
>> > \repeat unfold 8 { bf8 }
>> > 
>> > instead of 
>> > 
>> > bf8 bf bf bf bf bf bf bf
>> > 
>> > 
>> > But is there a simpler way?  Perhaps something along the lines of 
>> > 
>> > bf8*8
>> > 
>> > (which, as it stands, doesn't work, of course).
>> It does work, but you probably don't like its result.
>
> I'm using v.2.19.40, and so far as I can see it only works in the sense
> that the compiler doesn't produce an error.

It produces a note with the visual of bf8 but 8 times its length.
That's a perfectly normal LilyPond construct.  The "problem" is that
most people get acquainted with scaled lengths in the context of R1*8,
full-bar rests.  And then they tend to think this means "produce 8 times
an R1" when it actually means "produce full-bar rests until 1*8 has
expired" and is fully equivalent to R8*64 (for example).

-- 
David Kastrup