repeated lyrics / slurs in MIDI

[fiëé visuëlle]

Hi ho,

I'm typesetting an longish choral piece with the latest 2.8 on OSX.

[1]
Is there a possibility to repeat lyrics (only to get nice code) like
\repeat unfold 120 { blah }
?
(Of course, \repeat doesn't work within lyricsmode.)

[2]
If i have something like
a4. a4( a2)
I'd like to hear only two notes in MIDI, that is, the slur should get  
"played".
Is this possible? Or must I sponsor this as a new feature?


Greetlings from Lake Constance
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Henning Hraban Ramm
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