On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Patrick or Cynthia Karl <pck...@mac.com> wrote:
> Second, it seems to me that this topic is much more complicated that it ought
> to be.
Many seemingly simple things become complicated when you finally dig
into the details. The goal is to control the complexity.
> Finally, I still think that the following statement in section 1.4 of the
> Notation documentation:
>
> volta ... If the repeat is at the beginning of a piece, a repeat bar line
> is only printed at the end of
> the repeat.
>
> needs modification because it is misleading. It implies that if the repeat
> is not at the beginning of
> a piece, a repeat bar will be printed at the beginning of the repeat. That
> implication is evidently false.
It's not false, but you'd need a deeper understanding of the system to
know why in this case it behaved differently than expected. I can see
how one might expect the different behavior:
First try: \musicA \break \repeat volta 2 { \musicB }
-> Result: Hmm I want a double bar instead of a single bar before the
break. I'll add it in.
Second try: \musicA \bar "||" \break \repeat volta 2 { \musicB }
-> Result: The double bar worked, but where did my initial repeat bar
go? This is very surprising.
One way to think of the '\repeat volta' command is as a short hand for
adding in the correct bar lines around a section of music (it does a
bit more than that as well). If you manually override the bar at one
end of the repeat then you get the overridden bar.
-----Jay
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