counter for voltas with no alternative endings?

[Stig Brautaset]

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:

q2.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Regards,

Stig