2011/9/21 David Kastrup <[email protected]>: > [email protected] writes: > >> LGTM. >> >> From what i see, the surprise in this behaviour comes from two meanings >> of "music expression" - it can be understood as "a piece of ly input" or >> "a piece of music". Shall we write a sentence about this difference? >> I.e. "Using \repeat unfold is equal to writing out a fragment of music >> several times over, not a fragments of ly input"? > > If you write > > blurb = { c e g a } > > { \blurb \relative c'' \blurb } > > is \blurb a fragment of music, or a fragment of ly input? I am afraid > it is both: relativable music is a weird thing. > > And > \relative c' { \blurb \blurb } > is different from > \relative c' \repeat unfold 2 \blurb > > The reason that it is different is not that one is "ly input" and the > other is "music", but that making \repeat unfold do something different > from \repeat volta would be a total nuisance, and so we _explicitly_ > programmed this case to behave differently.
Good point, you are right that it was nonsense. cheers, Janek _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
