On Feb 6, 8:40, Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday, 5 February 1999, Adrian Mariano writes:
>
> > This doesn't work in 1.1.27. And the proposed syntax is rather
>
> I cannot imagine, these three scores all work for me (pl28):
>
> % first score, proposed by am; second alternative spans one quarter:
> \score{
> \notes \relative c' \type Voice {
> \repeat 2 { \partial 4; c4 | d e f g | }
> \alternative { { c d b } { d e f g } }
> }
> }
I don't call it "working" if the bar lines are misplaced. In this
case, there is an erroneous bar line one beat into the second
alternative.
> % second score, proposed by jcn: second alternative spans three quarters:
> \score{
> \notes \relative c' \type Voice {
> \repeat 2 { \partial 4; c4 | d e f g | }
> \alternative { { c d b } { \partial 2.; d e f } } | g
> }
> }
This produces an erroneous bar line 3 beats into the 2nd alternative.
>
> % third score, second alternative spans four quarters:
> \score{
> \notes \relative c' \type Voice {
> \repeat 2 { \partial 4; c4 | d e f g | }
> \alternative { { c d b } { \partial 1; d e f g } }
> }
> }
And this one does the right thing. I'm not surprised that I
was unable to guess this. It's pretty weird.
> Perhaps Lily should issue a '\partial 1;' command implicitely
> at the start of all but the first \alternative.
This seems like a pretty good idea. Would it be overridden if the
user issued a subsequent \partial?
