Re: Tremolo with more than two notes

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2010-07-06 18:01, Phil Holmes wrote:
> "Helge Kruse" <address@hidden> wrote in message
> news:address@hidden
> > Since the documentation says that only two notes tremolos I think this
> > is a
> > feature request and not a bug.
> >
> > I need to write a piece with a tremolo like fast repetition. But since
> > there are three notes in this repetition, the
> > \repeat tremolo n { x y }
> > doesn't work. How can I achieve such notation?
> >
> > Minimal example:
> >
> > \score {
> > \new Staff {
> > \time 3/4
> > \repeat tremolo 2 { b8. c' }
> > \repeat tremolo 3 { b8. c' d }
> > }
> > }
>
> Helge,
>
> Please post this question to lilypond-user where there are likely to be
> more people able to help.

Hi,

this actually has been forked from -user and should be regarded as a 
feature request:  Support for tremoli of more than two notes.  A 
workaround is given on -user, but it's just cheating by tweaking the 
appearance of note heads.


Cheers,
Alexander