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Re: Problem with Codas
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Joel C. Salomon |
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Re: Problem with Codas |
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Mon, 18 Sep 2017 17:38:04 -0400 |
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On 2017-09-17 2:50 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
> Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> writes:
>> On 9/16/17 8:09 AM, "Shamus Hammons" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a dream, that one day Lilypond will make codas first class
>>> citizens instead of having to exist as a series of ugly hacks. In that
>>> day, I could simply write \coda (with maybe some options) and Lilypond
>>> would automagically do the right thing. Alas, that day is not today. :-(
>>
>> What do you consider the "right thing" to be with a coda?
>
> \repeat coda 2 { %{ segno appears here %} common part }
> \alternative { { %{ coda sign here %} first part }
> { %{ actual coda formatted here %} coda } }
(Second try, dealing with the same Thunderbird issue others have mentioned.)
Omitting the coda alternative, this would be the natural way to input
repeats of the form “D.S. al Fine”. I would suggest “\repeat ds” (and
“\repeat dc”, unless you want to add magic that recognizes the start of
a piece) as the syntax.
––Joel C. Salomon
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––Joel C. Salomon
- Problem with Codas, Shamus Hammons, 2017/09/16
- Re: Problem with Codas, Carl Sorensen, 2017/09/16
- Re: Problem with Codas, Shamus Hammons, 2017/09/19
- Re: Problem with Codas, David Kastrup, 2017/09/19
- Re: Problem with Codas, Carl Sorensen, 2017/09/20
- Re: Problem with Codas, Shamus Hammons, 2017/09/25
- Re: Problem with Codas, Phil Holmes, 2017/09/25
- Re: Problem with Codas, Wols Lists, 2017/09/25
- Re: Problem with Codas, Thomas Morley, 2017/09/26