Re: best practices for volta (was Re: Problem with repeat, alternative endings that contain lyrics andleading rests)

[Trevor Daniels]

Kieren MacMillan wrote Tuesday, April 21, 2015 2:13 PM

> My question *was*, ultimately, more of a technical inquiry than a feature 
> request: I never use MIDI, or anything except visual output, so at least in 
> the foreseeable future this feature/bug/whatever has no noticeable impact on 
> my life either way. (To be honest, I don’t even really know what the 
> \unfoldRepeats + MIDI issue actually is, never mind how it might be better 
> handled.)
> 
> So let me ask more explicitly: Precisely what, if anything, would be the 
> technical difficulty in making [the single command] \repeat Do The Right 
> Thing™ in all engraved (e.g., PDF), expressed (e.g., MIDI), and other (e.g., 
> MusicXML) output streams?

As I have a rather light understanding of LP internals I am not the best person 
to answer this, but there are a couple of attempts to tackle this in the issue 
DB: see
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3698
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=769

Clearly the problem is not trivial.  As MIDI is widely acknowledged to be a 
relatively unimportant part of LP I doubt this is going to tackled while there 
are more important issues to resolve, not least the loss of the issue DB itself 
in just over 3 months time.

Trevor