Re: Writing a repeated rhythm

[Mats Bengtsson]

Lo?c Chahine <address@hidden> writes:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I am trying to find a function to simplify repeated rhythm writing. I
> > have a part with many bars like:
> >
> > r8 c16( c? c c c c) r8 d16( d? d d d d)
> >
> > and I think it would be easier to write something like:
> >
> > \myRh { c d }
> >
> > I found some Snippets, like this one:
> > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=302
> > or this one:
> > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=465
> >
> > But they seem not to work with 2.15.42, and I am not able to update
> > them.
> <URL:http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.15/Documentation/snippets/pitches#pitches-creating-a-sequence-of-notes-on-various-pitches>
Unfortunately, this nice feature only works in absolute mode. If you replace
\new Staff {
by
\new Staff \relative c' {
you will get a very nasty surprise. Is there any simple way to make a 
function where repeated notes are not further octaviated in this 
situation, without Scheme hacking?

    /Mats