Pavel Roskin <pro...@gnu.org> writes: > Quoting Xavier Scheuer <x.sche...@gmail.com>: > >> On 15 December 2011 22:58, Pavel Roskin <pro...@gnu.org> wrote: >>> Hello! >>> >>> For some reason, multiplication only works on full-measure rests >>> and silent rests. >>> >>> It would be nice to make it work on notes, chords and all kinds of >>> rests. For short repetitions, \repeat unfold is an overkill, which >>> doesn't make the source shorter: >>> >>> […] >>> >> >> There were already some (intense?) discussion about this. >> See issue #1067, which is AFAICS the same request as yours. >> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1067 >> Graham said he added it to the list of things to discuss in GLISS. > > Thanks! I looked for possible existing issues but missed that one. > >> In case you did not know, there is already a "shortcut syntax" when >> repeating the same chord: 'q' >> >> <c e g>4 q q q > > That's really valuable! I'm going to banish all short repeats in the > score I'm working on! Perhaps it should be mentioned in the > documentation under "repeats". I looked here and could not find it: > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/notation/short-repeats
It does not work reliably with \relative, and the total community interest to get this fixed amounts to an investment of €25 and no work. <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1110> The effort for a reasonably comprehensive solution modeled after the approach in the presented code sketch would be about 10 times that and require only a moderate level of skills. It is just boring and ugly grindwork nobody can be interested in. So you should be careful about relying on q in scores that pass music through music variables or music functions before applying \relative. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
