Re: Shortcut for \repeat unfold

[Hans Åberg]

> On 25 Sep 2021, at 17:47, Lukas-Fabian Moser <lfm@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 ×.