Changing volta number text

2021-05-14 Thread Ralph Palmer
Greetings - I appreciate the help this list has been over many years. I've gone slightly crazy on a couple of occasions, trying to figure out how to change a volta number, either to a different number(s) or to text. It looked like a snippet in the LSR : Volta text markup using repeatCommands [0.

Re: Changing volta number text

2021-05-14 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Ralph" == Ralph Palmer writes: Ralph> I've gone slightly crazy on a couple of occasions, trying to Ralph> figure out how to change a volta number, either to a different Ralph> number(s) or to text. You need to handle the whole thing yourself, rather than using the \alternative construct,

Re: Changing volta number text

2021-05-14 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Peter" == Peter Chubb writes: > "Ralph" == Ralph Palmer writes: Ralph> I've gone slightly crazy on a couple of occasions, trying to Ralph> figure out how to change a volta number, either to a different Ralph> number(s) or to text. Peter> You need to handle the whole thing yourself, ra

Re: Changing volta number text

2021-05-14 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2021-05-14 2:47 pm, Ralph Palmer wrote: I *did* find a thread in the archive : change of volta number which has gotten me close, but has an extra end-repeat before the first volta ending bracket. I'm also not sure the format is the most recent. How about this? \version "2.22.0" \includ

Re: Changing volta number text

2021-05-14 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 5:13 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2021-05-14 2:47 pm, Ralph Palmer wrote: > > I *did* find a thread in the archive : > > change of volta number > > which has gotten me close, but has an extra end-repeat before the first > > volta ending bracket. I'm also not sure the format i

Re: Changing volta number text

2021-05-14 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2021-05-14 6:40 pm, Ralph Palmer wrote: Excellent! Thank you, Aaron. I wish I could understand what your function does - how it works. The technique involves querying the current Score.repeatCommands and replacing any existing (volta "...") command with the user-provided version. This pr

Re: Changing volta number text

2021-05-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Ralph, > I think it would be helpful to either have a snippet that shows how to change > a "normal" volta number setup (i.e., change the numbers and/or add text), or > to add something to the documentation. The documentation is accurate, if not entirely clear… =) This is what I got using

Re: Changing volta number text

2021-05-18 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 7:26 PM Aaron Hill wrote: > On 2021-05-14 6:40 pm, Ralph Palmer wrote: > > Excellent! Thank you, Aaron. I wish I could understand what your > > function > > does - how it works. > > The technique involves querying the current Score.repeatCommands and > replacing any existi

Re: Changing volta number text

2021-05-18 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 6:35 AM Kieren MacMillan < kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi Ralph, > > > I think it would be helpful to either have a snippet that shows how to > change a "normal" volta number setup (i.e., change the numbers and/or add > text), or to add something to the document

Re: Changing volta number text

2021-05-18 Thread Kieren MacMillan
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

Re: Changing volta number text

2021-05-18 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/18/21, 1:46 PM, "lilypond-user on behalf of Kieren MacMillan" wrote: 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

Re: Changing volta number text

2021-05-18 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 18/05/2021 à 21:57, Carl Sorensen a écrit : On 5/18/21, 1:46 PM, "lilypond-user on behalf of Kieren MacMillan" wrote: 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 doc

Re: Changing volta number text

2021-05-19 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 5/18/21, 2:11 PM, "Jean Abou Samra" wrote: It is worth noting that the \volta command added by Dan Eble in the 2.23 development series does exactly the job requested here, if I understood correctly. Perfect! Thanks, Carl

Re: Changing volta number text

2021-05-20 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 1:11 PM Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > It is worth noting that the \volta command added by Dan Eble in the 2.23 > development series does exactly the job requested here, if I understood > correctly. > > \version "2.23.2" > > \language english > > { >\time 3/4 >\repeat