On Sat, 28 Aug 2004, Erik Sandberg wrote: > This is a known problem. You can change Timing.measurePosition as a > workaround.
Ah, so the question then becomes: will the example in the documentation be changed? As a lily neophyte I would have been happy to have seen a working example for this particular problem. The following worked for me (I blush to say I'm still using 1.6.12). Please adjust with appropriate buckets of salt: ---cut here--- \version "1.6.12" % start the last alternative on the first beat of a new bar. % This won't be necessary for lilypond versions X.X.X and up % % (make-moment 4 4) is our current time-signature % startLastAlt = { \property Timing.measurePosition = #(make-moment 4 4) } \score { \context Staff \notes \relative c'' { \partial 4 \repeat volta 4 { e | c2 d2 | e2 f2 | } \alternative { { g4 g g } { \startLastAlt a a a a | b2. } } } } ---cut here--- ...keith -- Keith White, EITI/SITE, University of Ottawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [+1 613 562 5800 x6681] FAX [+1 613 562 5664] _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond