Re: hide repeat endings?

[Jacques Menu]

Hello Ian,

Problem : with the code below and LP 2.19.25, I only get 4 lines of empty bars 
and two lines of chords…

JM

> Le 29 août 2015 à 04:41, Ian Rashkin <address@hidden> a écrit :
> 
> Maybe i'm going about this the wrong way... i'm working on a leadsheet, and 
> it has an intro, a main body, and a coda. i had it all looking great, with 
> codas and segnos as markups with custom placement , and line breaks where I 
> want them, etc. But, then I wanted to hear the repeats in midi playback for 
> proofing.  So I tried a lot of things, and ran into many problems, mainly 
> with putting chords by name into variables. Finally, I ended up using repeat 
> volta with alternates - I'm including just the chords (annotated) below for 
> brevity. So now, with \unfoldRepeats, it sounds great, and still looks great 
> in the layout score - except, it has a first ending and a second ending that 
> make sense musically, but not really. I'm attaching the rendred pdf - 
> hopefully it comes through - and as you can probably see, the text/line 
> endings are superfluous and unsightly. If I could find a different way to 
> notate this to avoid the problem, that would be cool, but alternately, I'm 
> thinking I can just hide the endings (transparent?). But, I can't find the 
> syntax for that, assuming it's possible.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks much,
> Ian
> 
> harmony = \chordmode {
>  s1*8 \bar "||" \break % this is the intro
>  \repeat volta 2 { % this is the main body of the song, minus the last bar
>    f1:7
>    s1*7 \bar "||" \break
>    des1:7
>    s1*7 \bar "||" \break
>    a1:7.9-
>    s1*7 \bar "||" \break
>    bes1:7
>    c1:7
>    f1:min7
>    bes1:7
>    a1:min7+
>    d1:7
>    g1:min7
>    g1:7
>    c1:7
>  }
>  \alternative {
>    {
>      bes1:9+.5+ \bar "|." \break %this is the last bar of the main body, 
> after the coda marker
>    }
>    {
>      bes1:9+.5+ % this is the code section
>      c1:9+.5+
>      bes2:9+.5+ b2:7 \bar "|."
>    }
>  }
> }
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