Re: Polyphonic repeats with lyrics (and rests)

[Simon Albrecht]

On 21.09.2015 19:04, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Simon Albrecht (address@hidden):
> > On 19.09.2015 06:18, David Wright wrote:
> > > I noticed some erroneous alto lyrics invading recent CPDL editions of
> > > Farmer's Fair Phyllis. I think the cause was some overenthusiastic
> > > factoring of the lyrics using tagging. So I thought I'd run up a copy
> > > myself, producing folded/unfolded scores from one source file.
> > >
> > > However I found, like others, that repeat barlines and voltas popped up
> > > all over the place as soon as I entered the lyrics into the correct
> > > structure. The Notation reference manual is not much help because none
> > > of its examples involves either rests or more than one vocal line.
> > >
> > > While none of the workarounds I've found on the web does the job
> > > satisfactorily, I think it's unduly pessimistic to say, "Unfortunately
> > > there is no clear recipe for entering lyrics and repeats which will
> > > work in all circumstances, as all the suggestions are work-arounds due
> > > to there being no well-defined interface in LilyPond for handling
> > > repeats in lyrics."
> > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-03/msg00866.html
> > It isn’t unduly pessimistic, but realistic. The ‘right’ example you
> > gave is pretty good except that it doesn’t work with \lyricsto.
> Nor \addlyrics.

addlyrics is known to be unreliable and messy in all but the most simple 
situations, but it might use the same mechanism as lyricsto here.

>   It seems to me (not looking at the code) that, in
> their search for notes to attach syllables to, both these commands
> could keep a tally of rests they've skipped over in order to then
> "push" the repeat mark back to the place where it belongs (which the
> \relative { ... } section knows all about). That's all *I'm* after.

I can’t comment on internals, as I know them too little. But you’re 
welcome send a feature request to address@hidden, including a 
concise example of what you think is wrong now, and how it should behave 
instead.

Yours, Simon