Staff regular layout

2008-04-11 Thread papa.eric
Hi, I cannot find in the documentation whether it is possible to have staves layout identically on all pages (matching side to side). For example, in my problem the optimal spacing found by Lilypond (2.11) is 5 staves in the 1st page, 4 in the second, 5 in the 3rd, 3 in the last. In the second

Re: Shortcut for epeated chords?

2008-03-28 Thread papa.eric
\repeat is nice for true repetitions, but if I have various patterns using the same chord with different durations, and some ties or accents or different beaming or slurs, it does not work. Only the notes (pitches) really are repeated. random example: c8 Y Y Y->~ | Y( Z) Z4_. | c8 X-> X_. X16 e

Shortcut for epeated chords?

2008-03-28 Thread papa.eric
Is there a shortcut for writing repeated chords? For example instead of 16 16 8 16 etc... I would like a token meaning "the last chord (pitches between < and >) once again". If there is nothing, does the suggestion to use empty chords <> for this seem interesting? (provided empty chords do n