Christopher Heckman <christopher.heck...@asu.edu> writes:
> How about allowing modifying the syntax of \alternative to include the
> possibility of a number, which means to repeat that ending? This would
> look like
>
> \alternative {
> { c1 }
> 1
> { d1 }
> 1
> }
>
> Which would be interpretted as: the 1st, 2nd, and 4th endings are c,
> and the 3nd ending is d.
That is already valid syntax and makes the first and second alternative
c1 and the third and fourth alternative d1 .
Extending LilyPond syntax is not really a matter of arbitrarily
inventing something: a lot of stuff is already taken.
--
David Kastrup
