Re: Issue #768 - chord repetition shortcut: patch for review

[Marc Hohl]

David Kastrup schrieb:
> [...]
> But *4 is _logical_.  You can guess what it does without looking it up
> in the manual.
>   
No. Since it looks like a multiplication, it treats the number, not
the notes (at least for me). So < c e g>4*4 could be interpreted as
< c e g >16, which is not what we want.
> In fact, I was quite surprised at what <c e g>4*4 does currently.  Makes
> no sense to me.  Can't imagine what it would be good for.
>
>   
The * operator scales the length of a note without changing its 
apperarance, see:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Writing-rhythms#Scaling-durations

I used it for displaying a hihat played shuffled to synchronize the two 
hihat beats with note 1 and 3
of a snare triplet, for example. Ok, I think it is used seldom in 
(more-or-less) normal scores,
but it isn't useless.

Marc