Re:Section repeat

[Flaming Hakama by Elaine]

When the whole section is repeated when it has alternatives, how is that normally engraved? Specifically, the section has two alternatives, but is repeated in full. One way is to use Score.repeatCommands for alternatives markup "1. 3" resp "2. 4", but then the "2." does not have a repeat. One can of course write four alternatives, but I was looking for something more compact.

I'd say, in general, you need as many alternatives as there is unique material. 

Only 1 & 3 are the same, so you can combine those.
2 and 4 differ in that 2 needs a repeat barline at the end of the measures, you need one alternative each.

This means three alternatives:
1 & 3
2
4 

Which is to say, I agree with how you did it in the second half of your example.

HTH,

David Elaine Alt

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