On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Gilberto Agostinho <
gilbertohasn...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am working with a score in Lilypond that has a lot of repetitions, where
> basically every bar has to be repeated a certain number of times. I would
> like to be able to write the number of repeats above every bar, similar
> to the score below (which was not created in Lilypond):
>
> http://i.stack.imgur.com/GLzuk.jpg
>
> It would be great to be able to have some brackets above the bar and also
> to have the "3x" centralized, just like in the example above. So far, the
> only (temporary) solution I was able to come up with in Lilypond was to add
> repeat bars and then simply write "3x" above the first note of every bar
> (since I could not have it centralized on the bar either). It does not look
> very good, but gets the job done. This temporary solution looks like this:
>
> http://i.stack.imgur.com/jcCh2.jpg
>
> Do you have any suggestions of how to make this last example look more
> similar to the first in Lilypond?
>
> Thanks a lot! Take care,
> Gilberto
>
>
Off hand, I would suggest looking up analysis brackets in the Notation
Reference. I don't recall at the moment how those work with text, but it
will get you something approaching the brackets you're looking for.

Carl
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