Re: Music repeat type: "fold"

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I used "fold" (probably completely inappropriately) to stack lyrics
> for different verses under a "volta" repeated staff.
>
> lyricsA = \context Lyrics \lyricmode {
>       \repeat fold 4 { same text for all verses }
>       \alternative {
>               { verse 1 specific text } { verse 2 text }
>               }
>
> Likely the \addlyrics and \stanza features might afford me the same
> functionality.  Perhaps my usage was too obtuse to expect convert-ly
> to address it?
>
> > Werner, it was you who removed "fold"; what should we replace it
> > with?

I did this on behalf of Han-Wen.  He then wrote:

  Fold was an attempt to represent lyric stanzas which are usually
  printed in parallel.  Since we couldn't get them to print properly,
  they have never been very useful, and consequently left out of the
  docs, so we don't have to explain that it doesn't work all the time.

  [...]

  The reason for not removing it [FoldedRepeatedMusic] was backward
  compatibility, but I think we should be ready to junk it now.

It seems that the best solution is to define a variable with the
stanza text and use it the number of times you need it.  Maybe
ly-convert can do this?  Otherwise, ly-convert should emit a warning
message, telling that it can't convert it (and probably giving a
suggestion how to fix it manually).


    Werner