Re: Shortcut for \repeat unfold

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> 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.

This reminds me of TeX's 'active characters'.  I think we shouldn't go
this route.  IMHO, a command should always be introduced with a
backslash.


    Werner