Re: Repeat alternative count

[David Kastrup]

Christopher Heckman <christopher.heckman@asu.edu> writes:

> How about allowing modifying the syntax of \alternative to include the
> possibility of a number, which means to repeat that ending? This would
> look like
>
> \alternative {
>   { c1 }
>   1
>   { d1 }
>   1
>    }
>
> Which would be interpretted as: the 1st, 2nd, and 4th endings are c,
> and the 3nd  ending is d.

That is already valid syntax and makes the first and second alternative
c1 and the third and fourth alternative d1 .

Extending LilyPond syntax is not really a matter of arbitrarily
inventing something: a lot of stuff is already taken.

-- 
David Kastrup