Re: best practices for volta (was Re: Problem with repeat, alternative endings that contain lyrics andleading rests)

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Trevor,

> I think the standard response to this is "patches welcome" ;)

Touché!  ;)

> No doubt it could - but only if someone was prepared to put the effort into 
> coding it.  

My question *was*, ultimately, more of a technical inquiry than a feature 
request: I never use MIDI, or anything except visual output, so at least in the 
foreseeable future this feature/bug/whatever has no noticeable impact on my 
life either way. (To be honest, I don’t even really know what the 
\unfoldRepeats + MIDI issue actually is, never mind how it might be better 
handled.)

So let me ask more explicitly: Precisely what, if anything, would be the 
technical difficulty in making [the single command] \repeat Do The Right Thing™ 
in all engraved (e.g., PDF), expressed (e.g., MIDI), and other (e.g., MusicXML) 
output streams?

Only after knowing that can I make a meaningful decision on how much I can get 
myself involved (either coding or sponsoring) to get it done.

Thanks,
Kieren.
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