Neil Puttock <n.putt...@gmail.com> writes:
> On 28 April 2010 20:48, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> writes:
>
>>> So I think we can come up with something that is both typographically
>>> simple and mnemonically compelling… How about c4t8 ("a c quarter note,
>>> tremolo-d in eighths").
>>
>> I don't consider that particularly pretty. On the other hand, it is not
>> particularly clever, either, and that may actually be an advantage.
>
> This has a major flaw: while the current syntax allows c: for a
> default tremolo (or `same-as-the-last-one'), the lexer would scan `ct'
> as a bare string, meaning you'd always have to declare the duration
> for a tremolo.
AFAIR, notes can't start with just a duration, so c/ should work
similarly.
Wish I had an idea for chord syntax that was more satisfactory than
moving tremolo to /. The latter is currently the best I can think of.
Maybe someone else has a good idea.
--
David Kastrup
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