Re: volta questions

[Paul Scott]

Graham Percival wrote:
> J.P. Mellor wrote:
> > Sure thing!  Attached are much shorter examples.
>
> Thanks, there are much easier to analyze.
>
> > volta_test1a.ly - missing vertical line segment on the right side of
> >           the volta bracket.
>
> This isn't done in printed music.  There is some logic in this -- the 
> music doesn't stop after the 2nd time ending -- but to be completely 
> logical the left-most vertical segment of the 1st time ending should 
> also be missing (since music doesn't start at the 1st time repeat).
Perhaps you were sleepy when you wrote this.  :)  The beginning of the 
first ending is the place where you skip to the second ending the second 
time and is complete necessary.
> Anyway, regardless of the internal consistency (or lack thereof) of 
> Western music, LilyPond's behavior here is not a bug.
I totally agree that there need not be an end to a second ending and 
there is usually not a vertical line there.

Have fun,

Paul Scott