Re: counter for voltas with no alternative endings?

[Aaron Hill]

On 2019-02-18 9:28 pm, Federico Bruni wrote:
> 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))
> > }

I would recommend using simple markup either at the beginning or end of 
the repeated section with the clear instruction to repeat the 
appropriate number of times.  This avoids anything potentially 
non-standard.

Otherwise, you could just duplicate the last measure as if it were an 
alternate, and then the normal volta brackets should work.  It is 
certainly not that uncommon to see volta sections with duplicated 
measures across alternates.  Sometimes one does it to provide more 
context across a line break or page turn.

-- Aaron Hill