Re: comments on CVS from 2002-07-14 15:58 (long)

[Mats Bengtsson]

Take a look at input/test/music-box.ly. Also, Arnold has made
a simple preprocessing tool that easily handles these things.

    /Mats


> Apropos abbreviations: I have two requests which could save a lot of
> time for typing:
> 
>   . A special construction which returns the same notes in a chord as
>     before, but with a different rhythm, e.g.
> 
>       <a4 c e> 4*<8>
> 
>     [What's the right syntax for 6*<a c e>, giving 6 times <a c e>?
>     Or isn't this possible at all?]
> 
>   . I want simple macros with arguments, e.g.
> 
>       boring = <$1> 4*<8>
> 
>       \boring{a4 c e}
>       \boring{a c f}
> 
>     It might be a good idea to enter rhythm and pitches of a chord
>     separately with a new syntax, say, <pitches,rhythm>:
> 
>       boring = <$1,$2> 4*<$2*2>
>                             ^
>                     real multiplication
> 
>       \boring{a c e}{4}
> 
>          =>  <a4 c e> <a8 c e> <a8 c e> <a8 c e> <a8 c e>
> 
>     Probably all of this is already possible with Scheme, but this is
>     sometimes very complicated.