Re: confused about segno sign, Fine and D.S. al Fine and generating correct midi output

[Valentin Petzel]

Fugue! That comes from being shortsighted and not checking names twice. I 
apologize!

As I see it putting something like this into the official release would be a 
bit problematic, as the whole thing is might cause very weird behaviour.

There are probably cleaner ways to achieve this result.

Cheers,
Valentin

22.01.2022 19:27:12 Kenneth Wolcott <kennethwolcott@gmail.com>:

> Hi Valentin;
> 
>   I feel too honored to be mistaken for Kieren :-)
> 
>   Thank you so much for the "Jump" code; it is very interesting.
> 
>   The details are ***WAY*** beyond my understanding, but it looks very
> useful and usable.
> 
>   I will experiment with it.
> 
>   Is there a possibility that the next release of Lilypond would have
> such functionality built-in?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ken
> 
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 5:27 AM Valentin Petzel <valentin@petzel.at> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Kieren, that seems to be correct.
>> 
>> One could also try something like this.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Valentin
>> 
>> Am Samstag, 22. Jänner 2022, 03:22:42 CET schrieb Kenneth Wolcott:
>>> Hi;
>>> 
>>>   I have a piece of music from which I am engraving that confuses me.
>>> 
>>>   At bar #13 there is the Segno sign.
>>> 
>>>   At the end of bar #20 there is a "Fine".
>>> 
>>>   At the end of the piece (bar #37) there is a "D.S. al Fine".
>>> 
>>>   I'd like to have Lilypond generate midi output that would match this
>>> intent.
>>> 
>>>   Does this mean:
>>>   Play all the way through; then start at the Segno and continue until the
>>> Fine?
>>> 
>>> I think that's what it means.
>>> 
>>> So I need to have bar #1 to bar #12 in one macro;
>>> bar #13 through bar #20 in a second macro;
>>> and the third macro would contain bars 21-33.
>>> 
>>> Then I need "M_one", "M_two", "M_three", followed by "M_two" to
>>> implement this in the midi score section.
>>> 
>>> Is that correct?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ken Wolcott