Re: Chord changes over repeat alternatives

[Yitz Gale]

Paul Scott wrote:

> I don't think it's a bug
> in my understanding of how Lilypond works.

It is definitely a bug. See below.

Also, see the the thread in July 2004 on
this list in which the developers confirmed
that this is a bug. They even seem to have
fixed the bug, but somehow the fix never
made it into CVS.

> Your example doesn't use the
> chordChanges = #t feature

It does use the feature. I wrote chords
for all of the notes, and Lilypond decides
which ones to print. Only chords changes are
to be printed.

That works fine throughout, except at the
beginning of the second ending. There Lilypond
skips the chord even though it is a change.
That is the bug.

My example is very short and contrived, of course.
In real music there could be hundreds of places
where chords are correctly skipped.

> Did you try chordChanges = #f ?
> I believe it will make your example do exactly 
> what you want.

No, it is wrong. It prints chords all over the
place that I do not want it to print. With
chordChanges = ##t everything is correct,
except in the case where the bug occurs.

> Indeed I just tried it and it does exactly what
> you said you wanted it 
> to. To be exact the following works:

No, your example does not do what I want.

I want Lilypond only to print chord changes.
Your example prints chords even when they
are not changes.

Lilypond's chordChanges feature works great
for that. Except that I am reminding
the Lilypond team that there is still a bug
in the case I pointed out.