On 7 September 2016 at 00:56, David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk>
wrote:
> On Tue 06 Sep 2016 at 23:40:40 (+0200), Sven Axelsson wrote:
> > Thanks everyone. I tweaked my definition to use
> >
> > \allowVoltaHook "|"
> >
> > altBracket = #(define-music-function (parser location tag) (string?)
> > #{
> > \once \override Score.VoltaBracket.shorten-pair = #'(0.3 . 0.3)
> > \set Score.repeatCommands = #(list (list 'volta (markup #:number
> tag)))
> > #})
> >
> > which gives me precisely what I want. Here is an example using both
> \repeat
> > ... \alternative endings and \altBracket alternatives.
>
> OK, that's much better, and I can see you were wanting what I thought
> you were. (I worried when I reread and saw "middle of a measure"
> rather than "middle of a piece".)
>
> However, I would still have misgivings about not starting the first
> bracket at the start of bar 8, and duplicating the half-bar.
>
> One minor detail: the 9th bar's volta (the 2nd time bar) shouldn't
> have a hook, because the music runs on from that crochet and, as
> significant, there's no jump from any earlier to the end of that
> crochet. This is discussed in
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-10/msg00113.html
>
> Is \allowVoltaHook as blunt an instrument as it was last year?
Yes, apparently so. Using alternatives for half bars as in bar 8 is
relatively common in this genre, so I will stick with that. Your comment
re. bar 9 would be fixed by ending that bar with a double line as I should
have done in the first place.
Best,
Sven Axelsson
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