> Op 27 feb 2026 om 12:29 heeft Jean-Charles Malahieude <[email protected]> het
> volgende geschreven:
>
> Le 27/02/2026 à 11:45, Helge Kruse a écrit :
>> Hello,
>> I am new to choir music and find some new challenges, at least for me. I
>> have a volta repeat where the melody is repeated, but with different lyrics.
>> What is the best way to tell Lilypond to use more syllables for the repeat?
>
> Since it is a very different text for the "repeat", and there are two verses,
> you would have four lines of syllables.
>
> In such a case, as a chorist, I wouldn't use a volta but simply recopy the
> notes which then would be:
I would for such a solution to not copy/paste to expand the repeats, but simply
retain the original repeat structure, but use "\repeat unfold" instead of
"\repeat volta" to have lilypond do the unfolding.
The 4 lyric lines for two verses would indeed be better avoided by unfolding
the repeats in the sheet music, but the repeat structure in the music is fine
to keep for the sourcecode.
