On Thu, 2015-10-01 at 12:40 -0500, Tim McNamara wrote: > > On Sep 30, 2015, at 8:22 AM, s.p.korzil...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > Dear Sir / Madam, > > > > I’m trying to write a piece that has repeats with alternatives. It seems > > that “\repeat volta 2” is the way to go with supplying the alternatives in > > “\alternative”. However, this seems to work only for alternative endings, > > while I have alternative middle parts. > > > > I have tried to fix this manually with introducing volta brackets and > > repeat signs. Unfortunately Lilypond doesn’t recognize this as a repeat and > > counts the notes of the alternatives as if they are all played in one run > > (so that the first note after the alternatives does not start a new > > measure, as it should, see attachment). > > Yes. You are starting the alternative in the middle of the bar which, from > the perspective of the musician reading the piece, is going to look very odd > and be hard to follow.
Are you sure? I recall this (repeat-half-bars) being quite a normal notation ... Richard > The alternatives should always be full bars not only for Lilypond to > function correctly but for the musicians to be able to play it correctly > without needing a lot of instruction. > > The updated file here corrects the issue and is more readable: > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
