That works very well and is easy. It appears to add a little space on the sides but it's something I can live with. Thank you very much!
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 11:41 PM, TaoCG <[email protected]> wrote: > David Bellows wrote >> Hello all, >> >> I'm writing a kind of minimalist piece that has a lot of repeated >> measures that I would like to notate using the percent repeat symbol >> with text above it like "8x" or any other arbitrary text. >> >> The built-in functionality does not seem to allow for this unless I'm >> missing something. I found a snippet to generate a percent repeat >> sign: >> >> makePercent = >> #(define-music-function (parser location note) (ly:music?) >> "Make a percent repeat the same length as NOTE." >> (make-music 'PercentEvent >> 'length (ly:music-length note))) >> >> But this does not allow me to add \markup to it like: >> >> \version "2.19.1" >> \score { >> c e g c | \makePercent s1^\markup{"8x"} >> } >> >> The normal \repeat percent 8 {blah} approach does not work because it >> creates a lot of measures with the repeat sign and I just want the one >> measure. >> >> I've seen solutions for spanning a selection with a spanner like >> ------3x------ but that's not what I want nor do I want to use voltas >> (and I believe I saw a solution for putting the "8x" over the bar line >> which is not what I want either). >> >> I'm fairly certain I've seen this notation before in other scores. >> >> Anyone have any ideas? >> >> Thanks >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lilypond-user mailing list > >> lilypond-user@ > >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > Hi, > > you can prepend your percent repeats with this: > > s1*0^\markup "text" > > I think this should give you the output you're looking for. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Adding-markup-to-percent-repeat-sign-tp158763p158766.html > Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
