I'm a fairly inexpert lilypond user. I've used simple macros before, but this one fails:
thrice = \repeat unfold 3
it produces an error message: error: unknown escaped string: `\thrice'
Minimal example:
thrice = \repeat unfold 3
{\thrice {a b } }
The same thing happens if I drop the 3 and try to define rept = \repeat unfold.
The Notation Manual 3.4.4 says "... So far we’ve seen static substitution – when LilyPond sees \padText, it replaces it with the stuff that we’ve defined it to be (ie the stuff to the right of padtext=)."
It then goes on to
padText =
#(define-music-function
(parser location padding)
(number?)
#{
\once \override TextScript.padding = #padding
#})
which looks more sophisticated than I need. I just want a short abbreviation of \repeat unfold
Maybe that's not possible without learning a good deal more?
David