Re: Add "countUnfoldRepeats" feature

[Colin Hall]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 10:12:00PM +0100, Xavier Scheuer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Now that "Measure_counter_engraver" has been implemented into LilyPond
> people can add a measure counter (great, thanks).
> But unfortunately people have to start it and stop it _manually_,
> using \startMeasureCount and \stopMeasureCount.
> 
> Could we add a feature to have an _automatic_ measure counter for
> unfold repeats?
> 
> Something like "countPercentRepeats" but for unfold repeats, that could
> be named "countUnfoldRepeats".
> 
> With a "countUnfoldRepeats" property, "UnfoldRepeatCounter" object
> and "Unfold_repeat_engraver".
> 
> I do not know if "repeatCountVisibility" property should be divided
> into "percentRepeatCountVisibility" and "unfoldRepeatCountVisibility"
> or if they could both share "repeatCountVisibility".
> 
> %%%% Example of how it would work
> \relative c'' {
>   \set countUnfoldRepeats = ##t
>   \repeat unfold 4 { c1 }
> }
> %%%% End of example
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 

Thanks for the very clear and complete feature request, Xavier.

I've created a new tracker for this.

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3038

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall