Re: Shorthand for \repeat unfold for individual notes

[David Kastrup]

Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> writes:

> On 2023-01-23 3:46 pm, Carl Sorensen wrote:
>
>> I get the lack of utility of \repeat unfold (14 keystrokes) for
>> short music
>> expressions (like a single note).  But I don't think that ** is
>> intuitive
>> enough to use it.
>> If there were an alternative operator that would not mess up
>> lookahead and
>> would not suffer with the confusion between * and ** (people already
>> think
>> * does your proposed **), I could be convinced.
>
> Well, blame my email program, as it truncated my original post.  I had
> intended to fully call out that ** is exponentiation in some language,
> thus might not be the best symbol.

Well, mathematically c**4 in some sense is the same as c c c c .  Not
saying that I find that compelling but it is some kind of argument.

-- 
David Kastrup