That works just perfectly - thanks very much!
Best, Robert
> On 23 Dec 2015, at 21:03, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Robert Schmaus <robert.schm...@web.de> writes:
>
>> Dear Lilyponders,
>>
>> I have the following problem: Within a staff of "normal" written
>> music, I include chord names to indicate improvised/soloing
>> passages. If a chord is repeated over a large-ish number of bars, I'd
>> like to use percent repeats and possibly the counter, too.
>> But I can't get the counter to work:
>>
>> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>
>> \version "2.19.18"
>>
>> \score {
>>
>> \new Staff
>> \with {
>> \accepts "ChordNames"
>> \consists Percent_repeat_engraver
>> } {
>> % some written out music
>> c''4 c'' c'' c''
>>
>> % switch to changes
>> \chords {
>> \set countPercentRepeats = ##t
>> \set repeatCountVisibility = #(every-nth-repeat-count-visible 4)
>> \repeat percent 8 { c1 : maj7 }
>> }
>> }
>> }
>>
>> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>
>> Everything works fine except the Percent Repeat Counter. If I switch
>> from \chords { ... } to \chordmode { ... }, the counter works, but I
>> no longer get ChordNames but stacked notes.
>>
>> Is something missing from the \with { ... } statement?
>
> No, from the \set statements. They are setting countPercentRepeats and
> repeatCountVisibility in the Bottom context while the engraver actually
> looking at them is in Staff context and consequently queries the
> properties at Staff level which are unfazed by changes at Bottom.
>
> So you need to write
>
> \set Staff.countPercentRepeats = ...
>
> and similar.
>
> --
> David Kastrup
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