Kieren MacMillan <kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> writes: > Hi all, > > I've been lurking a bit on this thread, but felt I should comment. > > I personally think we need a more general structure than \repeat will > ever be able to reasonably offer.
My take on this is that we need the equivalent of (multiple) "goto" and function calls in the basically notation-linear music flow for establishing a performance-linear music flow. The latter would be instantiated when \UnfoldRepeats is in action. Since in essence the number of imaginable repeat constructs is infinitive (I posted such a sequence right now), those performance-linear operators need to be accessible to a normal user, so that a normal user can pepper his score with the respective "to be performed in this order" instructions. Those "goto" and "function calls" should be able to have some basic effects not just on performance, but also on typesetting: ties starting before a branch point (or function return) need to be ended in each branch, the same for slurs and so on. Meter/key changes need to be preannounced when the performance-linear order will make them come up next. Once appropriate low-level primitives/events for the performance-linear "goto/branch/call" are established, repeat volta and everything else can be implemented in terms of them, and cautionaries, preannouncements (which pretty much should be identical to prebreak behavior) and stuff can be made to work in terms of the low-level events, not needing to cater specifically for the various repeat/volta/segno/whatever categories. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
