Repeats at the beginning of music

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> When Lily 1.3.93 typesets a piece of music that begins with a repeated 
> section, an opening repeat bar is typeset right at the beginning of the 
> piece. This is visible in the section on repeats in the reference 
> manual.
> 
> By convention, a repeat bar is not printed right at the beginning of a 
> piece of music, and indeed Lily never used to typeset one. Is there an 
> option to turn this behaviour off (I couldn't see one in the user 
> manual), or is it a bug?

try this


--- repeat-acknowledge-engraver.cc~     Sun Oct  1 13:12:06 2000
+++ repeat-acknowledge-engraver.cc      Tue Oct 10 13:48:25 2000
@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@
 void
 Repeat_acknowledge_engraver::do_process_music ()
 {
+  /*
+    At the start of a piece, we don't print any repeat bars.
+   */
+  if (now_mom () == Moment (0))
+    return ; 
+  
   SCM cs = get_property ("repeatCommands");
 
   String s = "";


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