Re: Explicit default duration?

[Aaron Hill]

On 2023-01-26 9:57 am, David Kastrup wrote:
> Luca Fascione <l.fascione@gmail.com> writes:
> > I'd think that if 'x' meant "last pitch" and 'X' meant "last chord", 
> > things
> > would be real peachy.
>
> Not a fan of using case distinction here (doesn't help that the German
> accordion accompaniment notation uses c for a c major chord and C for a
> single c root note).
>
> Maybe xx for chords...  Should be fast enough to type and is somewhat
> mnemonic.  At least more so than y .

Users probably are used to case-sensitivity with r and R for rests and 
multi-measure rests, respectively.

I could get behind 'xx' for chords as the naming seems to imply multiple 
notes are being reused.  However, 'q' for "qords" should still work even 
if 'x' were introduced.


-- Aaron Hill