RE: counter for voltas with no alternative endings?

[Federico Bruni]

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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