The string quartet I have been working on has a few passages where one or more of the instruments are playing the same pattern for several bars in succession.
In the score I want these to be written out in full, but in the parts I would like to use numbered "percent" repeat marks. The obvious way for me to do this was to use tags, and provide 2 versions. Unfortunately, because I am using the \parallelMusic structure, it seems to me that this won't work. As an alternative, I thought I could provide the alternatives on a bar-by-bar basis, just for the instrument concerned, so I have experimented to see how I can construct the required output. With just the repeat marks, this works: \version "2.19.24" makePercent = #(define-music-function (note) (ly:music?) "Make a percent repeat the same length as NOTE." (make-music 'PercentEvent 'length (ly:music-length note))) \relative c'' { %Normal version \repeat percent 3 { c1 } %Constructed version c1 \makePercent s1 \makePercent s1 } But the best I have managed so far to include numbers over the repeats is: \version "2.19.24" makePercent = #(define-music-function (note) (ly:music?) "Make a percent repeat the same length as NOTE." (make-music 'PercentEvent 'length (ly:music-length note))) \relative c'' { %Normal \set countPercentRepeats = ##t \repeat percent 3 { c1 } %Constructed version c1 << {\makePercent s1} {s1^\markup \override #'(font-encoding . fetaText) \tiny "2"} >> << {\makePercent s1} {s1^\markup \override #'(font-encoding . fetaText) \tiny "3"} >> } This works (apart from the fact that the numbers are not correctly centred over the bar), but it is clearly rather ungainly. Can anyone suggest a better way of achieving what I want? David _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user