Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> writes: > On 7/31/17 8:08 AM, "lilypond-devel on behalf of David Kastrup" > <lilypond-devel-bounces+c_sorensen=byu....@gnu.org on behalf of > d...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> >>Now the thing is that with the new change in place, we would not >>necessarily _need_ different arguments: an integral multiplier larger >>than 1 could be taken as a multi-measure rest count, like >> >>{1*4} >> >>So we likely _could_ get away with a single command: multipliers don't >>seem to make much sense in the context of markup rests. I am not sure >>that is a good idea, though. rest-markup would then have a convenient >>way of its own to flag multimeasure rests while rest-by-number-markup >>could not make use of it. > > I think that it is confusing to the user to have a multiplier be anything > but a duration multiplier. > > We already have had problems with people thinking that > > r1*4 > > is the same as > > \repeat unfold 4 {r1} > > If we go with this change on MMR, we will be reinforcing that > misconception. It's some syntactic sugar that will make understanding > more complex, IMO.
Ok, this sounds reasonable. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel