> On 25 Sep 2021, at 17:47, Lukas-Fabian Moser <l...@gmx.de> wrote: > > And I think it would be nice to have an even more natural variant for that; I > think it's reasonable to provide & show/recommend convenient solutions for > standard tasks (rather than say "you can define your own abbreviation here if > you know how to do so") - for example, > > \*2 "" or \x2 "" > > which would be my favourite.
Perhaps the LilyPond syntax might be tweaked so that identifiers starting with a UTF-8 multi-byte (high bit set) character do not need the backslash. Then simply ×2 would look good. As for typing such characters, I found text substitutions efficient, which is supported by some editors and OS text services. So in my system, if I type ".x" it translates into ×.
