Re: Pitch value of previous note

[Aaron Hill]

On 2021-04-30 4:17 am, Aaron Hill wrote:
> On 2021-04-30 3:39 am, David Sumbler wrote:
> > I want to be able to insert a note of the same pitch as the preceding
> > one.  I don't mind what form the pitch information is in, so long as I
> > can use it to create a new note.  It could, for example, be in the 
> > form
> > "b,,", or something similar to "(-2, 6)" as used by ly:make-pitch.
> >  There may be other possibilities.
>
> What about the existing pitch-repeating functionality in LilyPond?
>
> %%%%
> \version "2.22.0"
>
> foo = { 4 4 }
> { b'2 \foo g' \foo }
> %%%%
>
> A duration without pitch is encoded as a NoteEvent with the pitch
> property.  expand-repeat-notes! is the internal procedure that carries
> over the most recent pitch.  So long as you insert these events early
> enough, LilyPond should do the heavy lifting for you.

Sorry, that was meant to say: "*without* the pitch property".


-- Aaron Hill