Re: Repeat with alternatives

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On 01/10/2015 18:40, Tim McNamara wrote:
> > On Sep 30, 2015, at 8:22 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > Dear Sir / Madam,
> >   
> > I’m trying to write a piece that has repeats with alternatives. It seems that “\repeat volta 2” is the way to go with supplying the alternatives in “\alternative”. However, this seems to work only for alternative endings, while I have alternative middle parts.
> >   
> > I have tried to fix this manually with introducing volta brackets and repeat signs. Unfortunately Lilypond doesn’t recognize this as a repeat and counts the notes of the alternatives as if they are all played in one run (so that the first note after the alternatives does not start a new measure, as it should, see attachment).
> Yes.  You are starting the alternative in the middle of the bar which, from the 
> perspective of the musician reading the piece, is going to look very odd and be 
> hard to follow.  The alternatives should always be full bars not only for 
> Lilypond to function correctly but for the musicians to be able to play it 
> correctly without needing a lot of instruction.
But that's no use if you're setting parts for something that someone 
else has written ... it gets thoroughly confusing if some people have 
parts one way, and others have parts another way. I've had to set stuff 
like that and it gets tricky ...

I think I used a mixture of \partial and spacer rests.

Anyways, I think we've all missed the OPs problem. As he phrased it, I 
understand he wants

{fixed part 1} {alternative 1} {alternative 2} {fixed part 2} repeat

How you do that, I dunno, apart from just not using \repeat and setting 
the bits manually.

Cheers,
Wol