Re: Changing volta number text

[Kieren MacMillan]

Hi Ralph,

> I have to admit, after learning from you that the documentation is accurate, 
> and spending some time examining the various examples in the documentation, I 
> think I could achieve what I want. It takes some real effort, and I think it 
> would be difficult for someone who has little experience with LilyPond. And 
> isn't that the point of the documentation?

Absolutely. My comment was meant as a [gentle] criticism of the documentation, 
not of you or other users. Even if it explicitly pointed out that one needs to 
*not use* the \repeat volta command, that would be [more] helpful!

> I think it would be helpful to include an appropriate example in the manual 
> repeat marks section of the documentation.

Given that the combination of the first three examples at 
<https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.21/Documentation/notation/long-repeats#manual-repeat-marks>
 is sufficient to solve your example, and the fourth example is almost exactly 
what you needed, what would a more appropriate example look like? Would that be 
in addition to the existing examples, or as a replacement to one of them?

The sheer size of the Lilypond docs is already pretty overwhelming; just adding 
more examples won’t necessarily make it easier for users.

> I guess I'll make a note of the solution!

Some syntactic sugar might be nice… I could imagine a function that took a list 
of string+moment pairs and “unfolded” a volta automagically. If my life ever 
calms down, maybe I’ll give that a try.

Best,
Kieren.
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