> From: Dan Eble
> Subject: Default repeat type
>
> It would be convenient if both of these did the same thing:
>
> A. \lyricmode { Ah __ \repeat unfold 7 _ }
> B. \lyricmode { Ah __ \repeat 7 _ }
Maybe the user should be able to set the default repeat type? After
all,
Thomas Morley writes:
> 2017-08-26 20:13 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup :
>> Dan Eble writes:
>>
>>> %% Semantically, the melisma ends at the skip.
>>> %% In the output, the extender continues to the next syllable.
> [...]
>> I've had other
Knut Petersen writes:
> Hi David!
>
>> The takeaway for this is that extenders at the current point of time
>> often don't work as expected and are pretty hard to make do something
>> useful. I have a hard time figuring out what the current behavior is
>> supposed to
2017-08-26 20:13 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup :
> Dan Eble writes:
>
>> %% Semantically, the melisma ends at the skip.
>> %% In the output, the extender continues to the next syllable.
[...]
> I've had other occasions where I had not been able to make an extender
> end
Hi David!
The takeaway for this is that extenders at the current point of time
often don't work as expected and are pretty hard to make do something
useful. I have a hard time figuring out what the current behavior is
supposed to be good for, or what the rules governing it actually are.