Re: New here and first question about using repeat percent over more than two measures

[Aurelien]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:38:38AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote :
> Aurelien <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > \repeat percent X {
> >     <first measure>
> >     <seconde measure>
> >     <third measure>
> >     <fourth measure>
> > }
> >
> > but actually, it just prints empy measures in the end. Is there a way
> > to fix this, or am I trying to do something that doesn't exist, or
> > shouldn't, or whatever?
> 
> What would you expect that to render as?
> 
> Standard musical notation has repeat a note (thick slash), repeat one
> measure (dots around thick slash), and repeat two measures (dots around
> two thick slashes on the bar).
> 
> There isn't AFAIK any standard musical notation for a more-than-two
> measure repeat. So that's why LilyPond doesn't produce anything: there
> isn't anything sensible to do by default.

OK, that was the point I was not sure on.
Actually, I remember having used some things like that, but it might be
that is was hand-written. If I remember well, the slashes were equal to
number of measures, and the "inner measures" were condensed at the
middle.

> 
> This is usually done with volta repeats, and a text notation above
> saying how many times it should repeat. That doesn't help, of course, if
> you don't want the other staves in a system to repeat.

Actually, I would use that \repeat volta things, but it doesn't print
the number of repeats, so got to add a text notation. I felt this not to
be very clean, and thought there was another option (which I thought was
that repeat percent thing).

> 
> So, while this may be a common requirement, it's apparently not common
> enough that musical notation has a standard answer.

OK. So repeat volta and text notation, no other way. It's a bit a shame,
cause actually lilypond already has the notion of "number of
repetitions" as you might write \repeat volta 3 {}, but it doesn't use
it automatically.
OK, got to dig a bit deeper on this.

Thanks a lot, by the way.

Cheers.

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Aurélien