Re: DC al Fine

[Mats Bengtsson]

> How do you do a DC al Fine, and have lilypond recognize it as such, so that
> lyrics are placed accordingly?


Currently, Lilypond doesn't ``understand'' a Da Capo 
(in the sense that it understands repeats, e.g.). 
However, I'm not sure what you'd expect it to do with the
lyrics. 

Wait a second. Let's say you have to parts of music, A and B, 
and you want to typeset 

A         B 
  Fine      DC al Fine

isn't that structurally equivalent to a repeat, where A 
is repeated twice with B as the Prima Volta and no 
Secunda Volta? This would imply that you could use 
\repeat volta 2 {A} \alternative {{B}{}}
turn of the volta brackets and the repeat sign (see 
a recent thread on this list) and add the "Fine" and 
"DC" as text scripts. Still I don't really see what
you'd gain compared to just typesetting it the normal
way. 

      /Mats