Hello,
On 25 December 2011 21:52, Christian Andersson
<christian.ld.anders...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a problem which has frustrated me for weeks, and I've failed in all
> attempts to find any documentation or discussion on this topic. What would
> be suggested as the right way to express tones or phrases that extend across
> natural branches of a score, like repeats (possibly with alternatives) or
> dal segnos/al codas?
>
> Here is quite an artificial example (which is wrong, by the way, though it
> may hopefully illustrate my point, at least to those reasonably imaginative
> among the readers.) The result is not what I'd intend/expect:
>
> test = \relative c'' {
> c4 a b c ~ \repeat volta 2 { c a\( b c ~ }
> \alternative { { c2\) r4 c ~ } { c2\) r } }
> }
>
> What I want for the tie in alternative 1 is "clearly" to bind to the first
> tone of the volta repeat. Now it binds ("incorrectly", but without any
> diagnostic) to the c2 note in alternative 2. Instead, however, a warning is
> generated, again "incorrectly", for the ending of the phrasing slur in
> alternative 2.
>
> I put the word incorrectly in citation marks, to suggest my expression of
> what is merely an opinion of mine, not necessarily the truth (in a Lilypond
> sense). I don't think, however, that this problem is in any way fictitional
> or uncommon. (I've hopefully not missed an FAQ on this!) Slurs, ties,
> dynamics, and so on, could obviously live past branching points. I may well
> be that Lilypond doesn't have the necessary contextual information, at least
> not at da capo/dal segno/al coda jumps to do the right thing, but as I don't
> use any MIDI backend, I'd be happy with any suggested workaround for
> generating at least the "correct" score.
This looks like
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1698
James
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James
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