Re: Repeat with alternatives

[Richard Shann]

On Thu, 2015-10-01 at 12:40 -0500, 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.

Are you sure? I recall this (repeat-half-bars) being quite a normal
notation ... 

Richard


>   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.
> 
> The updated file here corrects the issue and is more readable:
> 
> 
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