#1325 Volta bracket going over to next line

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Originally created by: *anonymous

Originally created by: RalphBug...@gmail.com

I did look through the tracker but nothing obvious. I have also tested this with 2.12.latest and get the same issue.

This is the snippet that is as small as I can seem to get it (from a piece I was engraving).

\relative c'' {
\time 6/8
\repeat volta 2 {
   c8 ees, c c' ees, c |
}
\alternative {
   { c ees ges g4 a16 bes | b4.~ b }
   { bes8 a g ges4 g16 a16 | d,4.~ d }
}
c'8 ees, c c' ees, c |
c'8 ees, c c' ees, c |
c'8 ees, c c' ees, c |
}

\version "2.13.35"

What you can see is that the second volta stops at the end of the first line instead of carrying over to end at the next bar.

If you add two more duplicate bars at the end of the piece or remove one of them it all reflows and the volta is correct.

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Originally posted by: n.putt...@gmail.com

This is deliberately hard-coded in volta-bracket.cc, though it would be better to allow the user to decide.

Labels: -Type-Defect Type-Enhancement Priority-Low

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Originally posted by: pkx1...@hotmail.com

Added for information:

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(Volta_bracket_interface::modify_edge_height):

  if (broken_last_bracket && no_vertical_end && no_vertical_start
      && !broken_first_bracket)
    me->suicide ();

When removing it, the volta bracket is displayed as desired. Seems that the above statement explicitly removes volta brackets without start and end edge (there is no comment, however).

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Originally posted by: x.sche...@gmail.com

Apparently this issue is really bothering users.
It has been reported in various ways at least half a dozen times.

Maybe the priority could be raised from "low" to "medium" (for what it
changes)?

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Originally posted by: k-ohara5...@oco.net

Although it seems to confuse people (and the people it confuses seem to be programmers) it is a nice feature that we should keep; the extra length of the bracket has no musical meaning.
I suggest mentioning it in NR 1.4.1, and then adding an option if anybody gives a reason why they want the horizontal line segment.

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Originally posted by: pkx1...@gmail.com

Keith, can you suggest some rough text I can make a patch.

James

Labels: -Priority-Low

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Originally posted by: k-ohara5...@oco.net

Issue 3076 has been merged into this issue.