Are you saying that \alternative is known to work with \parallelMusic?
I can create a minimal example when I get home from work.
But what I was doing was:
\parallelMusic #'(upper lower) {
\repeat volta 2 {
% Bar 1
% right hand notes here |
% left hand notes here |
}
\alternative {
{
%rh notes |
%lh notes |
}
{
%rh notes |
%lh notes |
}
}
I think if I put a | after the {} for the \alternative it would compile but
act strange, and otherwise it would say my bars were not the same length.
What would be more helpful to me would be a minimal example of it working.
Thanks,
Tim
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Alex Loomis <thebluemusic...@gmail.com>wrote:
> There is a way to make roman numerals here.
> http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=710
> Click on the image, save the wall of text you see as roman.ly, and add
> the line \include roman.ly after the version line.
>
> As for the rest, I would have to see your code to see why it was acting
> strange.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Tim Ringenbach
> <tim.ringenb...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I decided I wanted to mess with some music in svg format. I decided to use
>> lilypond, and to typeset something from my beginner's piano book to play
>> around with. I was mainly using lilypond
>>
>> 2.17.91, although I also had a copy of 2.16.2.
>>
>> You can see the page I was trying to duplicate on amazon's preview, it's
>> page 116, "Why Am I Blue?".
>> http://www.amazon.com/Adult-All-In-One-Course-Lesson-Theory-Technic-
>> Level/dp/0882848186/ref=sr_1_2<http://www.amazon.com/Adult-All-In-One-Course-Lesson-Theory-Technic-Level/dp/0882848186/ref=sr_1_2>
>> ?
>> I was not trying to duplicate any of the red text, only the normal
>> notation.
>>
>>
>> (I was doing this for personal use and to learn lilypond, I know I can't
>> distribute someone else's copyrighted stuff)
>>
>> After googling and reading various pages of the manual, I decided to use
>> the
>> parallel mode.
>>
>> Things were going well until I got to the first and second endings.
>> Wrapping
>> everything in \repeat worked, but everything blew up when I tried add
>> \alternative. At one point I got it to compile, but it duplicated the
>> staffs.
>> I thought maybe it was broken in the 2.17 version, so I tried 2.16, and
>> \repeat didn't work at all in that.
>>
>> Eventually, after many wasted hours, I redid it without parallel mode and
>> that
>> worked well. (I get the impression that parallel mode just doesn't work in
>> certain situations, and I wish that the manual hadn't suggested that I use
>> it.)
>>
>> But, I still wasn't able to get the pedal in the second ending to start
>> out
>> open. It always gave me a warning that the \sustainOff didn't have a
>> matching \sustainOn for the last measure. It worked in the first ending
>> though, which I thought was a little odd since they were both in the
>> \alternative tag.
>>
>> Eventually I gave up on that and let the pedal start on the first node of
>> the
>> last measure, and end on the first rest.
>>
>> Finally, I got to the roman numerals, and from what I could find, there's
>> not really a way to do that. That I also found surprising, because
>> lilypond
>> seems to support so much obscure stuff, I thought
>> for sure it would support anything in a beginner's book.
>>
>>
>> Anyway, I don't really have any questions. I just wanted to relay my
>> experience in case it's helpful to the developers.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim
>>
>>
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