On 7/31/17 8:08 AM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of David Kastrup"
<lilypond-devel-bounces+c_sorensen=byu....@gnu.org on behalf of
d...@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>Now the thing is that with the new change in place, we would not
>necessarily _need_ different arguments: an integral multiplier larger
>than 1 could be taken as a multi-measure rest count, like
>
>{1*4}
>
>So we likely _could_ get away with a single command: multipliers don't
>seem to make much sense in the context of markup rests. I am not sure
>that is a good idea, though. rest-markup would then have a convenient
>way of its own to flag multimeasure rests while rest-by-number-markup
>could not make use of it.
I think that it is confusing to the user to have a multiplier be anything
but a duration multiplier.
We already have had problems with people thinking that
r1*4
is the same as
\repeat unfold 4 {r1}
If we go with this change on MMR, we will be reinforcing that
misconception. It's some syntactic sugar that will make understanding
more complex, IMO.
Thanks,
Carl
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