David Bellows wrote > Hello all, > > I'm writing a kind of minimalist piece that has a lot of repeated > measures that I would like to notate using the percent repeat symbol > with text above it like "8x" or any other arbitrary text. > > The built-in functionality does not seem to allow for this unless I'm > missing something. I found a snippet to generate a percent repeat > sign: > > makePercent = > #(define-music-function (parser location note) (ly:music?) > "Make a percent repeat the same length as NOTE." > (make-music 'PercentEvent > 'length (ly:music-length note))) > > But this does not allow me to add \markup to it like: > > \version "2.19.1" > \score { > c e g c | \makePercent s1^\markup{"8x"} > } > > The normal \repeat percent 8 {blah} approach does not work because it > creates a lot of measures with the repeat sign and I just want the one > measure. > > I've seen solutions for spanning a selection with a spanner like > ------3x------ but that's not what I want nor do I want to use voltas > (and I believe I saw a solution for putting the "8x" over the bar line > which is not what I want either). > > I'm fairly certain I've seen this notation before in other scores. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list
> lilypond-user@ > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user Hi, you can prepend your percent repeats with this: s1*0^\markup "text" I think this should give you the output you're looking for. -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Adding-markup-to-percent-repeat-sign-tp158763p158766.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user