Hi Ralph, > I have to admit, after learning from you that the documentation is accurate, > and spending some time examining the various examples in the documentation, I > think I could achieve what I want. It takes some real effort, and I think it > would be difficult for someone who has little experience with LilyPond. And > isn't that the point of the documentation?
Absolutely. My comment was meant as a [gentle] criticism of the documentation, not of you or other users. Even if it explicitly pointed out that one needs to *not use* the \repeat volta command, that would be [more] helpful! > I think it would be helpful to include an appropriate example in the manual > repeat marks section of the documentation. Given that the combination of the first three examples at <https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/notation/long-repeats#manual-repeat-marks> is sufficient to solve your example, and the fourth example is almost exactly what you needed, what would a more appropriate example look like? Would that be in addition to the existing examples, or as a replacement to one of them? The sheer size of the Lilypond docs is already pretty overwhelming; just adding more examples won’t necessarily make it easier for users. > I guess I'll make a note of the solution! Some syntactic sugar might be nice… I could imagine a function that took a list of string+moment pairs and “unfolded” a volta automagically. If my life ever calms down, maybe I’ll give that a try. Best, Kieren. ________________________________ Kieren MacMillan, composer (he/him/his) ‣ website: www.kierenmacmillan.info ‣ email: kie...@kierenmacmillan.info
