From: Trevor Daniels Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 21:28:30 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Doc: Issue 4436: Warn about rests in lyrics repeats with \alternative's X-Git-Tag: release/2.19.22-1~49 X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fc7d03e954636197d3075debd2fa981572ff90fe;p=lilypond.git Doc: Issue 4436: Warn about rests in lyrics repeats with \alternative's --- diff --git a/Documentation/notation/vocal.itely b/Documentation/notation/vocal.itely index b0f14e5c1d..54c7c88477 100644 --- a/Documentation/notation/vocal.itely +++ b/Documentation/notation/vocal.itely @@ -1365,8 +1365,11 @@ To position them correctly use @code{alignBelowContext}: @cindex repeating lyrics with alternative endings @cindex alternative endings and lyrics -If the words of the repeated section are the same, exactly the -same structure can be used for both the lyrics and music. +If the words of the repeated section are the same, and none of the +@code{\alternative} blocks start with a rest, exactly the same +structure can be used for both the lyrics and music. This has the +advantage that @code{\unfoldRepeats} will expand both music and +lyrics correctly. @lilypond[quote,verbatim] \score { @@ -1396,7 +1399,8 @@ same structure can be used for both the lyrics and music. @cindex skipping notes in lyrics @cindex lyrics, skipping notes -But when the repeated section has different words, a repeat +But when the repeated section has different words, or when one +of the @code{\alternative} blocks starts with a rest, a repeat construct cannot be used around the words and @code{\skip} commands have to be inserted manually to skip over the notes in the alternative sections which do not apply.