Re: Repeats

[Graham Percival]

I changed it about two years ago; a few users complained
that "perfect repeats" didn't make sense.  (a fake musical
term, or wasn't understandable by non-English readers, or
something like that).

Cheers,
- Graham


On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:11:00 +0100
Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden> wrote:

> Also, could we find a better term than "Measure repeats", so that it
> covers also \repeat percent 4 { c4 }. I think we used to have the
> title "percent repeats" in some old version of the manual, but I'm
> not sure if that rings a bell either, for most readers.
> 
>     /Mats
> 
> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> > Don't forget that it probably isn't obvious to most first time
> > readers that
> > a tremolo or measure repeat is even considered a repeat, i.e. they
> > won't look in the section called repeats.
> > Also, don't forget about \repeat unfold, which actually is very
> > useful in some circumstances, but perhaps doesn't require a
> > subsection of its own.
> >
> >   /Mats
> >
> > Trevor Daniels wrote:
> >> Hi Ralph
> >>
> >> I'd go for the simpler structure:
> >>
> >> 1.4 Repeats
> >> 1.4.1 Repeat syntax
> >> 1.4.2 Normal repeats
> >> 1.4.3 Manual repeat commands
> >> 1.4.4 Tremolo repeats
> >> 1.4.5 Measure repeats
> >>
> >> This puts the syntax at the front, as you wanted, and
> >> removes the ugly, somewhat artificial, separation into
> >> Writing repeats and Other repeats.  Also removing a level is
> >> good.  You could add "Writing" before headings 2-5, to
> >> distinguish them from the syntax section but I don't think
> >> that's necessary.
> >>
> >> Trevor D
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: address@hidden
> >> [mailto:address@hidden
> >> On Behalf Of Palmer, Ralph
> >> Sent: 21 February 2008 21:04
> >> To: address@hidden
> >> Subject: GDP: Repeats
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi, All -
> >> I'm currently working on rewriting Repeats in the Notation
> >> Reference, and I don't care for the existing structure.
> >> Currently, it looks like this:
> >> 1.4 Repeats
> >> 1.4.1 Writing repeats
> >> 1.4.1.1 Repeat syntax
> >> 1.4.1.2 Normal repeats
> >> 1.4.1.3 Manual repeat commands
> >> 1.4.2 Other repeats
> >> 1.4.2.1 Tremolo repeats
> >> 1.4.2.2 Measure repeats
> >> However, since Repeat syntax discusses the common syntax for
> >> all the repeats, it would seem to make more sense to take it
> >> out of the section dealing with normal. I'd like to suggest:
> >> 1.4 Repeats
> >> 1.4.1 Repeat syntax
> >> 1.4.1.1 Repeat syntax and types of repeats
> >> (introduction of the syntactic construct)
> >> (following types of repetition are supported . . .)
> >> 1.4.2 Writing repeats
> >> 1.4.2.1 Normal repeats (I'd prefer a better term than
> >> "normal")
> >> 1.4.2.2 Manual repeat commands
> >> 1.4.2.3 Tremolo repeats
> >> 1.4.2.4 Measure repeats
> >> It might also make sense to split 1.4.1.1 into 1.4.1.1
> >> Repeat syntax, followed by 1.4.1.2 Types of repeats
> >> supported.
> >> Comments, please?
> >> Ralph
> >>
> >>
> >>
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