Re: arbitrary repeat counter

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On 06/06/2022 14:10, David Kastrup wrote:
> > Ah. So now if you do a relative repeat, the contents of the braces are
> > converted to absolute before the unfold? That's neat.
> >
> > It never used to be like that, Han Wen wrote that "reset octave"
> > thingy for me yonks ago (2.4?) because I ran in to that very problem.
> Unfolded repeats worked via an iterator (and thus were not having the
> \relative problem since the music is not being duplicated) as early as
> 1.5.66 whereas the first occurence of resetRelativeOctave appears to be
> 2.9.8.
>
> You probably were thinking about a different problem.

Well, I'm pretty certain the piece of music was Pennsylvania 65-000, and 
I remember Han-Wen writing it specifically for me.

I can't remember the first version of lilypond I used, but the fact it 
first appeared in lilypond proper much later makes sense - I know I 
posted it back to the list on at least one occasion.

Aha - I've found the music, and yes, it's not quite the same problem ... 
also, no surprise, the music has a "version 2.8.2" statement at the top, 
and my function is called "resetOctave". It's a phrase that's repeated 
in voltas, so I need to reset relative pitch when I use the phrase.

So very similar, but not quite the same :-)

Cheers,
Wol