Re: Percent repeats within \parallelMusic

[David Sumbler]

Thanks for this information - it could well provide a solution.

I was not aware that, in \parallelMusic, the music between successive
bar checks could be more than a single bar.  Section 1.5.2 of the
Notation Reference says "Bar checks | must be used, and the measures
must be of the same length."  There is no suggestion that these
"measures" need not actually correspond to single measures of the music.
The examples shown all use single bars between bar checks.

Perhaps this useful fact could be added to this section of the
documentation.

David


On Fri, 2015-10-02 at 10:23 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> David Sumbler <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The string quartet I have been working on has a few passages where one
> > or more of the instruments are playing the same pattern for several bars
> > in succession.
> >
> > In the score I want these to be written out in full, but in the parts I
> > would like to use numbered "percent" repeat marks.
> >
> > The obvious way for me to do this was to use tags, and provide 2
> > versions.
> >
> > Unfortunately, because I am using the \parallelMusic structure, it seems
> > to me that this won't work.
> 
> Why?  Can you make a sketch of what you are having problems with?
> Percent repeats usually are only for a few bars.  If they are not
> staggered over instruments, you can just leave off all bar checks in the
> repeated passage for all instruments: there is no requirement to do a
> barcheck/voiceswitch every bar in \parallelMusic.
>