Re: chords under endings updated but now for staffgroup?

[Paul Scott]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> You shouldn't read my old answers if Han-Wen has given some better
> answers. 

I searched.  If I had been aware of this solution I would have used it. :)

> As is also described in the section on "Repeat Syntax" in
> the manual, the correct(!) way of handling such a situation is to
> set the voltaOnThisStaff property. 

Thanks for making that connection.  It wouldn't have been obvious until 
your solution below.

> Unfortunately, the example file
> linked from the manual is missing, so here comes a copy from the
> old manual, updated to version 2.4.2:
>
> \header {
>
>     texidoc = "Volta brackets can be placed over chord names. This
> requires adding an engraver to @code{ChordNames}, and setting
> @code{voltaOnThisStaff} correctly."
>
> }
>
> \version "2.4.0"
> \score {
>     <<
>   \new ChordNames \with {
>       voltaOnThisStaff = ##t
>   } \chordmode {
>      c1 c
>   }
>   \new Staff \with {
>       voltaOnThisStaff = ##f
>   }  {
>    \repeat volta 2 { c'1 } \alternative { c' }
>   }
> >>
> }
Thanks for that solution.  It works great!

Shouldn't that actually be the default?

Paul