http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/notation/long-repeats#normal-repeats
NR 1.4.1 Normal repeats """ If there are more repeats than there are alternate endings, the earliest repeats are given the first alternative. A single repeat with one alternate ending: \repeat volta 2 { c4 d e f | } \alternative { { c2 e | } { f2 g | } } c1 A single repeat with more than one alternate ending: \repeat volta 4 { c4 d e f | } \alternative { { c2 e | } { f2 g | } } c1 Multiple repeats with more than one alternate ending: \repeat volta 3 { c4 d e f | } \alternative { { c2 e | } { f2 g | } { a2 g | } } c1 """ The images are pretty clear but the wording used to describe them are not clear IMO. What is a repeat? What is an alternate ending? There's no consistency. In the first example it seems that a single repeat is when you have only 2 volta, which make sense to me. The second example has multiple repeats as the third one, hasn't it? The only difference is that third example has more than one alternate ending (if you start counting alternate ending from second alternative). So I would rewrite the second sentence as: Multiple repeats with one alternate ending Does it make sense what I'm writing? _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond