Re: 2nd time only

[David Kastrup]

Simon Bailey <address@hidden> writes:

> please pardon the double post, i forgot the attachment… :)
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> On Friday, 30 August 2013 at 11:00, Simon Bailey wrote:
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>> hi,  
>>  
>> i'm typesetting a piano piece for a young composer, and he has a 
>> descrescendo in one repetition which should only be played the second time.
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>> in his score, it's labelled "2. x: >" (see attached original-snippet.png). 
>> this is perfectly comprehensible for anybody who speaks german, i'm not sure 
>> if anyone else would understand it though… what would be the most 
>> international way of writing this? my current ideas are "2nd x:" or some 
>> abbreviation of "[solo] seconda volta" (probably \markup { \concat { "solo 
>> 2" \super "a" " x."}} ).
>>  
>> does anyone have any other suggestions?

You use an X here.  That's the wrong character.  Try using × instead,
either writing it directly or as \markup \char ##xd7


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David Kastrup