Thanks for the explanation. Seems like a buglet in LP, but not worth while worrying about. At least it's not giving me any serious problems, but warnings when I don't think I'm doing anything wrong worry me :)>
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 2:07:26 PM, you wrote:
Nalesnik> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 3:41 AM, Peter Toye <address@hidden> wrote:
>> This is a forwarded message
>> From: Peter Toye <address@hidden>
>> To: Simon Albrecht <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tuesday, October 11, 2016, 4:07:21 PM
>> Subject: Why warning: cannot end volta spanner?
>> Thanks - that certainly does the trick. Though why there should be a
>> warning message there at all is still beyond me (see the title to this
>> thread!).
Nalesnik> The warning happens in lily/volta-engraver.cc, where there is a comment:
Nalesnik> /* fixme: be more verbose */
Nalesnik> The warning is issued because the program expects to end the spanner
Nalesnik> either when the repeat element is over, or when a line break is
Nalesnik> encountered, as in your example. Consequently, you can set
Nalesnik> voltaSpannerDuration to Mom 5/1 or Mom 13/1 in your example with no
Nalesnik> warning. (With results identical to the default without the manual
Nalesnik> setting, of course.)
Nalesnik> I'm not sure of the point of the warning. Why else would you set
Nalesnik> voltaSpannerDuration unless you want something out of the ordinary?
Nalesnik> In any case, the warning should be more descriptive.