Re: Why don't we get rid of \chordmode?

[Neil Puttock]

On 28 April 2010 20:48, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:

>> So I think we can come up with something that is both typographically
>> simple and mnemonically compelling… How about c4t8 ("a c quarter note,
>> tremolo-d in eighths").
>
> I don't consider that particularly pretty.  On the other hand, it is not
> particularly clever, either, and that may actually be an advantage.

This has a major flaw: while the current syntax allows c: for a
default tremolo (or `same-as-the-last-one'), the lexer would scan `ct'
as a bare string, meaning you'd always have to declare the duration
for a tremolo.

Regards,
Neil