Re: 2 Questions: marking "sections" and automatic beaming

[Mats Bengtsson]

Mark Gibbens wrote:
> I'm new to music publishing on linux, and have just transcribed a tune  
> with Lilypond for the first time.
>
> Here's the piece I'm working on:
> http://flet.org/tests/The-New-Way-to-Bowden.ly
> http://flet.org/tests/The-New-Way-to-Bowden.pdf
>
> The automatic beaming seems not to be working well in the 
> second-from-last  bar of each repeat section.  The first time round, 
> I've used manual  beaming to fix it, but I wonder if there's anything 
> I'm doing wrong to  cause Lilypond not to beam those last 4 semi-quavers 
> in the offending bars.

You keep confusing LilyPond with all your \partial statements. Use
\partial only at the beginning of the piece and everything should work
fine.

> And also, I'm not sure of the correct musical terminology here, but I'd  
> like to mark each repeated section with a number or letter - "[1]" or  
> "[a]" - displayed above the stave at the start repeat bar-line.  
> Letters  would probably make the most sense in the folk music context 
> I'm working  in.  But I couldn't find how I might do this in the 
> documentation... any  advice?

Read about "rehearsal marks" in the documentation.

An additional comment about your file: Why not use the
builtin support for repeats in LilyPond? The start of your
piece could be written as

\score {
        \relative c'' {

                \set Score.markFormatter = #format-mark-numbers
                % [1]
                \time 4/4
                \clef treble
                \key a \major

                \partial 4 e
                \mark \default
                
                \repeat volta 2{
                cis2 b4 a
                cis8 d e4 fis8 gis a4
                cis,2 b4 a
                cis b b e \break
                
                cis2 b4 a |
                cis8 d e4 fis8 gis a4
                b, cis8 d e d cis b
                cis4 a a \break }

                % [2]
                
                \mark \default
                \repeat volta 2 {fis'8 gis
                ...


   /Mats


> Many thanks,
> Mark.
>
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