Re: Shortened volta span & autopackage

[Shelagh Manton]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 07:37:21 +1000, Shelagh Manton wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:49:55 +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Daniel Johnson wrote:
>>> Mats Bengtsson wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>>Shelagh Manton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>>I was hoping somebody would point me to the place in the documentation
>>>>>where it shows how to shorten a volta bracket. I've seen it, but can't
>>>>>find it again..
>>>>
>>>>The volta will include exactly as many notes as you include in the
>>>>corresponding block of the \alternative{...}, so can't you just move
>>>>some notes outside the \alternative{...}, or maybe I didn't understand
>>>>your question. It's always easier to answer if you include some LilyPond
>>>>code and tell exactly what you want changed.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I believe the original poster was desiring to set the vertical extent of
>>> a volta bracket, rather than the horizontal.
>> 
>> The height of the left/right edge should be controlled by
>> \override Staff.VoltaBracket #'height = #1.0  % Default = 2.0!
>> and the default distance between the bracket and the stave by
>> \override Staff.VoltaBracket #'minimum-space = #4.0 % Default = 5.0
>> 
>> See 
>> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond-internals/VoltaBracket.html#VoltaBracket
>> for the documentation.
>> 
>>     /Mats
> 
> Sorry my original explanation was so bad. I want to shorten the horizontal
> length of the volta spanner. I've seen this in the documentation a couple
> of times and now I can't find the reference. I'm trying to do some nested
> repeats. So far so good, except that the volta spanner (this is what the
> line above the music showing 1st 2nd time around is called?) is too long
> and and starts to conflict with the volta spanners in the nested part.
> 
> In other words the volta spanner is shortened by me to not go to its
> proper  and natural end.
> 
> SOM

Ha! I've found the reference! Right where yoy'd expect too!

SOM