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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