RE: counter for voltas with no alternative endings?

[Federico Bruni]

I see. AFAIK it's not standard notation (I mean, I would interpret it 
as the 8th volta of a missing repeat section), but if that's what you 
want... :-)


Il giorno lun 18 feb 2019 alle 20:06, Stig Brautaset 
<address@hidden> ha scritto:
> Hi Federico,
>
> Well, I won't try to explain I understand how it works, but I was able
> to adapt it to something that gives me the result I want:
>
> \version "2.19.80"
> eight = \markup {8.}
> \repeat volta 8 {
>   %% This numbers the repeat block.
>   \set Score.repeatCommands =
>   #(list(list 'volta eight) 'start-repeat)
>   c1 | d | e | f |
>   \set Score.repeatCommands = #'((volta #f))
> }
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Stig
>
> Federico Bruni <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >  Are you sure it applies to your case?
> >  You said you did not have alternatives...
> >
> >  See the simple workaround suggested in this issue:
> >  https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/1409/
> >
> >
> >  Il giorno dom 17 feb 2019 alle 0:41, Stig Brautaset
> >  <address@hidden> ha scritto:
> > >  Thanks! I actually found that example earlier, but didn't realise 
> > > that
> > >  it applied to my case... Thinking a bit about it I got it to work,
> > >  however.
> > >
> > >  Regards,
> > >
> > >  Stig
> > >  "Mark Stephen Mrotek" <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > >   Stig Brautaset:
> > > >
> > > >   Something like this from
> > > >   
> > > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/long-repeats?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >   voltaAdLib = \markup { 1. 2. 3... \text \italic { ad lib. } }
> > > >   \relative {
> > > >     c''1
> > > >     \set Score.repeatCommands =
> > > >       #(list(list 'volta voltaAdLib) 'start-repeat)
> > > >     c4 b d e
> > > >     \set Score.repeatCommands = #'((volta #f) (volta "4.") 
> > > > end-repeat)
> > > >     f1
> > > >     \set Score.repeatCommands = #'((volta #f))
> > > >   }
> > > >
> > > >   Mark
> > > >
> > > >   -----Original Message-----
> > > >   From: lilypond-user
> > > >   [mailto:address@hidden On
> > > >  Behalf Of
> > > >   Stig Brautaset
> > > >   Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2019 1:52 PM
> > > >   To: address@hidden
> > > >   Subject: counter for voltas with no alternative endings?
> > > >
> > > >   Hi,
> > > >
> > > >   I'm trying to engrave some music that has 4 bars repeated 8 
> > > > times.
> > > >  I can use
> > > >   a volta, but since there is no alternative ending it doesn't 
> > > > print
> > > >  the
> > > >   number of repeats. Is there any way to force that to print?
> > > >
> > > >   Here's a minimal example. The first volta doesn't print the 
> > > > number
> > > >  of
> > > >   repeats, the second does. Should I perhaps be using percent 
> > > > repeats
> > > >   instead...?
> > > >
> > > >   ----8<----[ q2.ly ]----8<--------8<----
> > > >   \version "2.19.80"
> > > >   \relative c' {
> > > >     \repeat volta 8 {
> > > >       c
> > > >       d
> > > >     }
> > > >     \repeat volta 8 {
> > > >       c
> > > >     }
> > > >     \alternative {
> > > >       d
> > > >       e
> > > >     }
> > > >   }
> > > >   ----8<--------8<--------8<--------8<----
> > > >
> > > >   The generated PDF is here:
> > >
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