Re: manual volta help

[Robin Bannister]

David Bobroff wrote:
> for some reason the "rs" of "GFirst" is coming out italicized as is. 


This is because the voltas use the music font 
and it has special letters for doing dynamics like sfz and rfz. 

The way described in NR.1.4.1. at "Text can be included ..." 
would in your case define markup something like: 
  firstText   = \markup { \large \italic \text "First" } 
and then use it in: 
  \set Score.repeatCommands = #(list '(volta #f) (list 'volta firstText))
  
Note the additional '(volta #f) 
to avoid the warning: already have a volta spanner



> I would like to close the volta box on the right side of the "Fine"


This is trickier. 
Lilypond has to be somehow told that the "Fine" measure will never be 
immediately followed by its neighbour, 
something that is normally taken care of by a repeat barline like ":|". 

In fact I think you can only tell Lilypond about this via the barline type. 
Your ordinary double barline doesn't imply any discontinuity, 
so it is unsuitable. 

If you change it to \bar "|." (to match "Fine") the volta becomes closed. 

With 2.10 you could use an override to trick Lilypond into 
thinking "|." but showing "||", 
but this loophole was actually a bug. 
You can't do this with 2.12. 

And AFIAK there is currently no way to temporarily override 
which barlines are regarded as discontinuous. 
So you may end up doing something ugly involving two barlines, 
one of which is a transparent \bar "|." 


Cheers,
Robin