On 2025-09-14 13:33, Simon Albrecht wrote:
Hi everyone,
just figured I’d recommend a bit of trickery with LilyPond input
syntax that makes my work transcribing music a lot easier and more
pleasant. This is about repetitive structures with small variations,
and I suspect many might not be aware of these possibilities (yet).
Want to use \repeat unfold, but the first note has a different
articulation or a slur starting? Insert a zero-duration empty chord to
add these articulations/spanners to:
\version "2.25.28"
{ <>(-> \repeat unfold 6 { c'8 c'' } c'4) r }
Yes, zero duration chords are useful every now and then. You may also
find the \after command (which was added in version 2.24) very useful in
these situations, for example:
{ \after 1 ( \repeat unfold 6 { c'8 c'' } c'4) r }
However, if you for example want to add both a starting slur and an
articulation, you have to combine that with your trick with a
zero-duration chord:
{ \after 1 <>(-> \repeat unfold 6 { c'8 c'' } c'4) r }
/Mats
