hide repeat endings?

[Ian Rashkin]

Maybe i'm going about this the wrong way... i'm working on a leadsheet, 
and it has an intro, a main body, and a coda. i had it all looking 
great, with codas and segnos as markups with custom placement , and line 
breaks where I want them, etc. But, then I wanted to hear the repeats in 
midi playback for proofing.  So I tried a lot of things, and ran into 
many problems, mainly with putting chords by name into variables. 
Finally, I ended up using repeat volta with alternates - I'm including 
just the chords (annotated) below for brevity. So now, with 
\unfoldRepeats, it sounds great, and still looks great in the layout 
score - except, it has a first ending and a second ending that make 
sense musically, but not really. I'm attaching the rendred pdf - 
hopefully it comes through - and as you can probably see, the text/line 
endings are superfluous and unsightly. If I could find a different way 
to notate this to avoid the problem, that would be cool, but 
alternately, I'm thinking I can just hide the endings (transparent?). 
But, I can't find the syntax for that, assuming it's possible.

Thoughts?

Thanks much,
Ian

harmony = \chordmode {
  s1*8 \bar "||" \break % this is the intro
  \repeat volta 2 { % this is the main body of the song, minus the last bar
    f1:7
    s1*7 \bar "||" \break
    des1:7
    s1*7 \bar "||" \break
    a1:7.9-
    s1*7 \bar "||" \break
    bes1:7
    c1:7
    f1:min7
    bes1:7
    a1:min7+
    d1:7
    g1:min7
    g1:7
    c1:7
  }
  \alternative {
    {
      bes1:9+.5+ \bar "|." \break %this is the last bar of the main 
body, after the coda marker
    }
    {
      bes1:9+.5+ % this is the code section
      c1:9+.5+
      bes2:9+.5+ b2:7 \bar "|."
    }
  }
}

untitled.pdf
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