Re: constructing a jazz piece

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Shamus <address@hidden>:

> | Thanks for that David. I've been doing this to separate out dynamic
> | markings, but I didn't know you could do the same with voltas and the
> like.
> |
> | /me goes off to try it
>
> Wow! Works like a charm! This is not only going to save me lots of time,
> but what's left of my sanity. :-) Attached is the final result. Thanks
> again, David!

This can certainly be a good practice to separate out annotations or
dynamics and such. This is one aspect of separating musical content 
from typesetting layout. However, for the specific case of \repeat 
volta, I'm not so certain that it's a good idea to only specify them 
separately
from the music. For example, this means that you will not be able to 
produce a MIDI file with all repeats played and I seem to recall some
other problems that can also appear if you do not specify the repeats
in the actual music.

  /Mats