Re: Adding markup to percent repeat sign

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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
> 
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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.



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