Re: Problem with Codas

[Joel C. Salomon]

On 2017-09-17 2:50 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
> Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> writes:
>> On 9/16/17 8:09 AM, "Shamus Hammons" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a dream, that one day Lilypond will make codas first class
>>> citizens instead of having to exist as a series of ugly hacks. In that
>>> day, I could simply write \coda (with maybe some options) and Lilypond
>>> would automagically do the right thing. Alas, that day is not today. :-(
>>
>> What do you consider the "right thing" to be with a coda?
> 
> \repeat coda 2 { %{ segno appears here %} common part }
>              \alternative { { %{ coda sign here %} first part }
>                             { %{ actual coda formatted here %} coda } }

Omitting the coda alternative, this would be the natural way to input
repeats of the form “D.S. al Fine”.  I would suggest “\repeat ds” (and
“\repeat dc”, unless you want to add magic that recognizes the start of
a piece) as the syntax.

––Joel C. Salomon