Re: Is it possible to put alternatives inside repeats?

[David Wright]

On Fri 09 Dec 2016 at 20:40:01 (+0100), Simon Albrecht wrote:
> On 09.12.2016 10:22, list_lilypond wrote:
> >inside the repeat there are alternatives.
> >
> >As normally the \alternative{} syntax is put outside the \repeat{}, I
> >really wonder whether this is possible at all.
> >If possible in some other way, could someone please be so kind to point
> >out how to repeat with embedded alternatives without rewriting all?
> 
> The available implementation of \repeat doesn’t allow any other use
> of \alternative than immediately _after_ the repeated expression. So
> it seems you’ll have to either
> 
> – split the repeat up into several repeats (and relocate stuff so
> that the alternative at the beginning becomes an alternative at the
> end
> – write it out entirely – that might really reduce confusion for the
> reader, except in Reich-esque pattern music,
> – or fake the appearance by setting the context property
> repeatCommands. There is an example in 
> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/snippets/repeats#repeats-volta-text-markup-using-repeatcommands>.
> So you can do something like the attached. I’d advise to close the
> volta brackets for the 2. alternatives _inside_ the repeat, but I
> don’t know how. Anyone?

I used \allowVoltaHook in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-10/msg00404.html
but it has its downside as it seems unresettable.

Cheers,
David.