Re: Feature request: multiplication should work on notes, chords and all rests

[James]

Pavel,

On 16 December 2011 03:26, Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> wrote:
> Quoting Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>:
>
>> On 15 December 2011 22:58, Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> 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:

Tracker and patch added

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2137

Thanks


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James