Re: Repeated durations: pitches vs rests

[David Bellows]

Hi Timothy,

> David Kastrup (who probably implemented the feature) comments on the
design decisions here

Thanks for that. That is definitely not a use-case I had anticipated
though it's nice to see that I'm not alone in wondering about the
default behavior. And apparently my solution involving an alternate
syntax (adding a ~ (tilde) to a rest to make LilyPond repeat the rest)
is probably not worth the effort to implement or maintain.

Dave

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 12:00 PM Timothy Lanfear <timothy@lanfear.me> wrote:
>
> On 22/02/2021 19:30, David Bellows wrote
> > And that's mainly what I was trying to find out. For me, the expected
> > behavior is that with a lone duration, the rest would be repeated if
> > it is the object immediately preceding the lone duration. If it turns
> > out that most people would expect that rest to be ignored and for
> > LilyPond to keep searching backward till it finds a pitch, then that's
> > fine. Not what I expected but if I'm in the minority then code
> > operates as it should. If I were in the majority then it would seem to
> > be in everyone's best interest if the behavior were changed.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> David Kastrup (who probably implemented the feature) comments on the
> design decisions here
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2020-03/msg00355.html.
>
>
> --
>
> Timothy Lanfear, Bristol, UK.
>
>