Re: Why warning: cannot end volta spanner?

[Peter Toye]

Mark and Kieren,

Of course! The reason I didn't spot it is that the alternative starts with a 16-bar section in a \repeat unfold 2, and that of course is a separate _expression_. It looks like I'll have to do the unfolding manually - what a pain!

Best regards,

Peter
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Thursday, October 6, 2016, 4:44:16 PM, you wrote:

Peter, Try taking the “a, b, and c” out of the second ending, i, e, \alternative { {g f e g }{g }} a b c Mark From: lilypond-user [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Peter Toye Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2016 8:21 AM To: address@hidden, Subject: Why warning: cannot end volta spanner? This rather follows on from https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-02/msg00014.html and http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-03/msg00531.html I am trying to do a similar thing with a volta repeat: a longish 1st time section without a long 2nd time volta indication. I tried to set the voltaSpannerDuration but this gives an error "cannot end volta spanner", which I don't understand. Is there a way of doing this without getting an error? It seems that LP tries to put the same number of bards into the 2nd time as the 1st time. A quick straw poll of printed music implies that the norm for the final alternative is a single bar. Is this a bug or am I missing something? A minimal example follows. \version "2.18.2" \language "english" \score { \new Staff {   \time 4/4   \clef treble   \relative c''   {     c1     \repeat volta 2 {       c d e f     }     \alternative {       {         g f e d       }       {         \set Score.voltaSpannerDuration = #(ly:make-moment 4/4)         g a b c       }     }     b a g   } } } Regards, Peter mailto:address@hidden www.ptoye.com