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Re: Shorthand for \repeat unfold for individual notes
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Shorthand for \repeat unfold for individual notes |
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Tue, 24 Jan 2023 01:09:17 +0100 |
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Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> writes:
> On 2023-01-23 3:46 pm, Carl Sorensen wrote:
>
>> I get the lack of utility of \repeat unfold (14 keystrokes) for
>> short music
>> expressions (like a single note). But I don't think that ** is
>> intuitive
>> enough to use it.
>> If there were an alternative operator that would not mess up
>> lookahead and
>> would not suffer with the confusion between * and ** (people already
>> think
>> * does your proposed **), I could be convinced.
>
> Well, blame my email program, as it truncated my original post. I had
> intended to fully call out that ** is exponentiation in some language,
> thus might not be the best symbol.
Well, mathematically c**4 in some sense is the same as c c c c . Not
saying that I find that compelling but it is some kind of argument.
--
David Kastrup