Re: Shortcut for \repeat unfold

[Aaron Hill]

On 2021-09-25 5:11 am, David Kastrup wrote:
> Aaron Hill <lilypond@hillvisions.com> writes:
>
> > On 2021-09-25 12:46 am, Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote:
> > > Aaron:
> > >
> > > > If the asterisk feels overloaded, you could use the multiplication
> > > > sign:
> > > > %%%%
> > > > \version "2.22.0"
> > > > × = % U+00D7
> > > I'd advise against introducing non-ASCII commands. Users won't be
> > > happy if they can't find on their keyboards what the documentation
> > > instructs them to type.
> >
> > I guess my sarcasm indicator got lost in shipment.  What one should
> > have taken away from my post was that \x was the viable alternative to
> > \*, not the multiplication sign (which is ASCII, by the by; just not
> > commonly found on keyboard layouts).
>
> ASCII is a 7-bit encoding; U+00D7 is certainly not within its range.

*was*.  ASCII has been 8-bit for quite some time.  Still, be pedantic 
and miss the forest for the trees, my point was that \x is a good option 
if \* was going to be problematic.


-- Aaron Hill