>> It is extremely helpful in writing keyboard music. > > Typing aids are the kind of thing that editor macros should do rather > than the music processor.
Here I strongly disagree. There must be means to make LilyPond's `source code' readable by people also which don't use an editor's special lilypond mode. Compare this: <c e g>8[ <c e g> <c e g> <c e g> <c e g> <c e g> <c e g> <c e g>] | <c e a>8[ <c e a> <c e a> <c e a> <c e a> <c e a> <c e a> <c e a>] | <a d f>8[ <a d f> <a d f> <a d f> <a d f> <a d f> <a d f> <a d f>] | <b d g>8[ <b d g> <b d g> <b d g> <b d g> <b d g> <b d g> <b d g>] | with this: <c e g>8[ \repeat unfold 6 { <c e g>8 } <c e g>] | <c e a>8[ \repeat unfold 6 { <c e a>8 } <c e a>] | <a d f>8[ \repeat unfold 6 { <a d f>8 } <a d f>] | <b d g>8[ \repeat unfold 6 { <b d g>8 } <b d g>] | (maybe this can be written in a better way) and that: <c e g>8[ q q q q q q q] | <c e a>8[ q q q q q q q] | <a d f>8[ q q q q q q q] | <b d g>8[ q q q q q q q] | I'm not sure that you can beat the q notation w.r.t. readability. Werner _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond