Re: Tremolo with more than two notes

[Phil Holmes]

"Alexander Kobel" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> On 2010-07-06 18:01, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > "Helge Kruse" <address@hidden> wrote in message
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> > > 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

Thanks, Alexander.  I did actually read it on user, but didn't connect the 
2...

It should get added by the on duty bug squadder.

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Phil Holmes
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