Re: Usually this makes sense: "warning: More alternatives than repeats. Junking excess alternatives"

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 11/02/2022 à 22:33, Kenneth Wolcott a écrit :
> Hi;
>
> Usually this makes sense:
>
> "warning: More alternatives than repeats.  Junking excess alternatives"
>
>    But I'm having trouble finding the problem.
>
> Here's the result of calling lilypond:
>
> GNU LilyPond 2.22.1 (running Guile 2.2)
> Processing `Willson_Till_There_Was_You.ly'
> Parsing...
> warning: More alternatives than repeats.  Junking excess alternatives
> warning: More alternatives than repeats.  Junking excess alternatives
> Interpreting music...[8][16]
> Preprocessing graphical objects...
> Interpreting music...
> MIDI output to `Willson_Till_There_Was_You.midi'...
> Finding the ideal number of pages...
> Fitting music on 1 page...
> Drawing systems...
> Converting to `Willson_Till_There_Was_You.pdf'...
> Success: compilation successfully completed
>
> I have attached the origin (pdf arranged by www.TubaPeter.com), my
> engraved pdf, and my Lilypond source.
>
>    I know that this is now an MWE; but would you guys be willing to
> look at this in spite of that?  It's not huge.
>
>    I just can't seem to find where my error is.



I read

  \repeat volta 2 {
    \tuba_one_ii
  }
  \alternative {
    { \tuba_one_iii }
    { \tuba_one_iv }
    { \tuba_one_v }
  }

Indeed, you have more alternatives than repeats.
\repeat volta 3 will make LilyPond behave.

Best,
Jean