Re: Shortened volta span & autopackage

[Shelagh Manton]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:49:55 +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

> 
> 
> Daniel Johnson wrote:
>> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Shelagh Manton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hello,
>>>>
>>>>I was hoping somebody would point me to the place in the documentation
>>>>where it shows how to shorten a volta bracket. I've seen it, but can't
>>>>find it again..
>>>
>>>The volta will include exactly as many notes as you include in the
>>>corresponding block of the \alternative{...}, so can't you just move
>>>some notes outside the \alternative{...}, or maybe I didn't understand
>>>your question. It's always easier to answer if you include some LilyPond
>>>code and tell exactly what you want changed.
>> 
>> 
>> I believe the original poster was desiring to set the vertical extent of
>> a volta bracket, rather than the horizontal.
> 
> The height of the left/right edge should be controlled by
> \override Staff.VoltaBracket #'height = #1.0  % Default = 2.0!
> and the default distance between the bracket and the stave by
> \override Staff.VoltaBracket #'minimum-space = #4.0 % Default = 5.0
> 
> See 
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond-internals/VoltaBracket.html#VoltaBracket
> for the documentation.
> 
>     /Mats

Sorry my original explanation was so bad. I want to shorten the horizontal
length of the volta spanner. I've seen this in the documentation a couple
of times and now I can't find the reference. I'm trying to do some nested
repeats. So far so good, except that the volta spanner (this is what the
line above the music showing 1st 2nd time around is called?) is too long
and and starts to conflict with the volta spanners in the nested part.

In other words the volta spanner is shortened by me to not go to its
proper  and natural end.

SOM