Here's my (rather tedious) suggestion for a workaround: so that the alternative
starts with a note, not a rest, provide a note and hide it, then patch the rest
in using another voice; the lyrics need a skip to avoid the dummy note. It
works (see below).
Paul
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\version "2.25.10"
music = \relative {
\time 4/4
\repeat volta 2 {
d'1 |
\alternative {
{ d1 | }
{ | << { \hideNotes d4 \unHideNotes } \new Voice { b'4\rest } >> d,2
d4 | d1 }
}
}
\bar "|."
}
words = \lyricmode {
\repeat volta 2 {
a
\alternative {
{ b }
{ \skip1 c d e }
}
}
}
\score {
\new Staff <<
\new Voice \music
\addlyrics \words
>>
}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
From: Kevin Pye <[email protected]>
To: Michael Werner <[email protected]>
Cc: Lilypond User <[email protected]>
Sent: 09/12/2023 21:14
Subject: Re: Unexpected bar boundaries with volta repeats and lyrics.
Thank you,
Unfortunately, in this case (the real score from which the example was
extracted) I need the words to be repeated so I can unfold them for midi
output. I'll just have to do the unfold manually.
Kevin.
On Sat, 9 Dec 2023, at 23:45, Michael Werner wrote:
Hi Kevin,
On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 11:31 PM Kevin Pye <[email protected]> wrote:
What silly mistake am I making here?
Not all that silly. Though the docs do talk about putting lyrics into the same
repeat structure as the music, there's one detail in
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/lyrics-and-repeats that
you may have missed:
"... when one of the \alternative blocks starts with a rest, a repeat construct
cannot be used around the words"
Change the lyrics block to just
words = \lyricmode {
a b c d e
}
and it should behave itself a bit better for you.
--
Michael
