On 12/5/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erik Sandberg wrote: > > On Sunday 04 December 2005 18.32, Raphael Manfredi wrote: > > > >>What is the technical reason for repeats to not be automatically "played" > >>(i.e. unfolded) as many times as necessary in the MIDI output? > >> > >>The "\unfoldRepeats" is a crude hack, and I fail to see the justification > >>behind this feature. Surely, lilypond knows how to iterate over repeats > >>to be able to process "\unfoldRepeats" so surely it should not have any > >>problem generating correct MIDI output without this directive. > >> > >>Why isn't this behaviour "fixed" to behave normally, i.e have MIDI output > >>reflect the music as written? > > > > > > Currently, MIDI is mainly intended mainly for prooflistening purposes, and > > it's not very relevant to listen to repeats when prooflistening. > > > > There are also technical reasons: The interpretation of "volta", "unfold" > > etc. > > is not done by the midi/layout backends, but by music iterators. And music > > iterators don't know whether midi or layout output is being produced. > > > I'm planning to restructure the syntax of \score, \book and \midi in the > 2.9 cycle so this will no longer be an issue.
It would be interesting to hear more about the syntactic changes, maybe as we get closer to 2.9.x. -- Trevor Bača [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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