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Feature request: Extremely short repeat syntax.
From: |
Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: |
Feature request: Extremely short repeat syntax. |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:01:30 +0200 |
address@hidden writes:
>
> I would like to make a suggestion that all notes, rests, drums, etc. are
> typeset in lower case. In contrast, all reserved words would have at least
> one Capitalized letter. Unfortunately, only multi-measure rests do not
> follow the convention.
I think this is the wrong path to follow: I prefer it if both rests,
skips and mmrests are user-settable, like the note names.
> To solve this discrepancy, the following improvement would be needed to the
> LilyPond syntax: The use of an integer, and a fraction would mean different
> things:
>
> '*2' would mean that the syntax before is produced twice, and
> '*2/1' would mean that the associated duration would be corrected by
> multiplying with with the fraction 2/1.
I think this will be confusing, and doubt whether it will work, but
why don't you go ahead and try to write a YACC grammar for it?
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Han-Wen Nienhuys | address@hidden | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen