Re: Percent repeats

[Thomas Morley]

2017-10-28 19:48 GMT+02:00 Malte Meyn <address@hidden>:
> Hi list,
>
> in the LilyPond facebook group someone reported again issue 3146
> (https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/3146/). Before I looked at
> the tracker I tried to find a solution in Scheme but then I saw that
>
> 1. almost the whole thing is written in C++ and thus not changeable for a
> “normal” user
> 2. there are different Events, Grobs and Engravers for percent repeats
> lasting 2 measures, 1 measure, and other durations:
>
> \version "2.19.65"
>
> {
>   \override RepeatSlash.color = #blue
>   \override PercentRepeat.color = #red
>   \override DoublePercentRepeat.color = #magenta
>   \repeat percent 4 { a16 b a b }
>   \repeat percent 2 { a1 }
>   \repeat percent 2 { a b }
>   \repeat percent 2 { a b a b }
> }
>
> IMO that’s very confusing; would it be possible to have a more consistent
> way to print percent repeats?
>
> Cheers,
> Malte

Some time ago I posted some thoughts about it
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2017-05/msg00330.html
Not sure I'm always correct, though.

Cheers,
  Harm