Hello, I think the term you are looking for is 'ossia' (at least that is how it seems to be in many of my Baroque Trumpet books).
As to how it is engraved, well my references show it as above/below the bar that it can replace or right at the end of the peice as a 'mini score' with instructions indicating which bar it can replace. James -----Original Message----- From: lilypond-user-bounces+james.lowe=datacore....@gnu.org on behalf of Cordilow Sent: Sat 31/07/2010 9:57 To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Choice of ending? I found an old song and it gives me to know that it has two endings-you get to choose which one. It's not like you repeat after the first and go to the second. You just choose either one and leave the other unplayed. Is there some standard way of doing this, by chance? I'm not sure what words to search the documentation for, if so. I'm guessing the way my music does it isn't standard. It uses a volta repeat with three alternates. The first is a real repeat. The next two are both labeled 2 (for the second alternate), and there is the markup 'eller' (that's 'or' in Swedish) above between the two volta brackets. For the curious, this is printed in an 1896 Swedish hymnal (no. 36 out of 245) entitled Jubelklangen. I've recently started putting LilyPond sheet music for these up on hymnwiki.org (207 hymns left to go). -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Choice-of-ending--tp29312019p29312019.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user