Re: Shortened volta span & autopackage

[Mats Bengtsson]

Shelagh Manton wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was hoping somebody would point me to the place in the documentation
> where it shows how to shorten a volta bracket. I've seen it, but can't
> find it again..
>
>  
The volta will include exactly as many notes as you include in the
corresponding block of the \alternative{...}, so can't you just move
some notes outside the \alternative{...}, or maybe I didn't understand
your question. It's always easier to answer if you include some LilyPond
code and tell exactly what you want changed.

> Shelagh
>
> Also, could  someone explain how the autopackager decides whether to
> update what you have already on your computer. I updated Lilypond
> yesterday and guile, which I already had installed, was updated and the
> upshot is that I had to uninstall guile thru' apt and reinstall it. 
> Lilypond worked fine after this but before I did this, guile
> could not load itself. Is it a conflict with the already installed guile?
> Why did it need to update if the guile that was already there worked fine?
>
>  
Please always tell what version of LilyPond you tried and what Linux
distribution you use yourself. If you search the mailing list archives for
bug-lilypond, you will notice that there have been several related 
discussions
there and that several attempts to fix the problems have been implemented.

  /Mats