Re: Repeat alternative count

[Dan Eble]

On Aug 29, 2020, at 14:52, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> My own take on it is that \alternative syntax is an abomination and it
> should likely be more like
> 
> \repeat volta 40 {
>  ...
>  \alternative { ... }
>  \alternative { ... }
>  \alternative { ... }
> }
> 
> since that would avoid several syntactical problems and would allow to
> produce alternatives by music functions.

I agree, but that's a little too far into fantasy land for me to attempt right 
now.  The other stuff proposed so far seems more attainable.

I've been intending to ask you how difficult you think it would be to make the 
parser treat \alternative as a music function whenever it does not follow a 
\repeat {}?  I've gotten \alternative << >> working to my satisfaction, but I 
did it by requiring the << >> in the parser.  I think it would be nicer if 
something like

    \repeat volta 2 {
      ...notes...
      \alternative M
      ...notes...
    }

would call a music function with argument M.
— 
Dan