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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list >> lilypond-user@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >> > >
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