I am doing some charts for a jazz singer, and she wishes me to place the symbol for "play the same thing in this measure that you played in the last measure" symbol (sorry I don't know its name; it looks like a "divided by" sign) above certain measures in place of a chord. It is not available except in a staff style. I don't know why she feels the need to have it, but she does. I have created it as an expression, but it doesn't look very good, especially since it doesn't have the jazz font style. I suppose I could put another staff above it and blank out everything except that symbol, but it seems like a lot of work considering that she asked for this *after* I had done the whole chart.
Crystal: I realize that you need to give your client what she wants, but I would certainly never clutter the page with such symbols. A chord symbol stays in effect until cancelled by the next symbol! I've never seen what she wants, and I've certainly never used it.
By the way, totally unofficial, but I've always thought of it as the "ditto" symbol, and the repeat-2-bars version as the "double ditto."
John
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