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Re: Repeat Alternatives w/o Repeat Bar


From: Paul Scott
Subject: Re: Repeat Alternatives w/o Repeat Bar
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 01:17:32 -0700
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David A. Greene wrote:
> Paul Scott wrote:
>> David A. Greene wrote:
>>> Is it possible to typeset volta-style alternatives without generating
>>> a repeat bar?  I'm typesetting an SATB score and would like it to look
>>> something like this:
>>>                   _____________________  ____________________
>>>                    | To verses           || To coda            |
>>>  ... notes | notes | notes  verse pickup || notes  coda pickup
>>>              D.C.         D.C.
>>>     || verse one || verse two || coda |.
>>>
>>> Hopefully that makes sense.  I'm looking at a choir book and this is
>>> how it's typeset there.
>>>
>>> Anyone done this before?
>> You don't say what version you are using.  For 2.9.x and 2.8.x this is
>> documented under
>>
>>
>>         Manual repeat commands.
>
> Using 2.9.17.  I looked at that and I think I know how to do it but
> I was hoping there was a way to specify this but retain the nice
> useage of volta and \unrollRepeats for midi output.  I suppose I
> just have to choose one or the other since Lily doesn't seem to have
> built-in segno, coda, D.C. or D.S. commands that could be taken into
> account for midi output.  Is there any sort of plan for that in the
> future?
I can't answer that.  Hopefully someone else will.

I'll bet you could get a group to sponsor that.  I might contribute if
it got smart versions of D.C., etc.

Paul





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