Re: Howto have the number of volte printed out above an end-repeat bar?

[James]

Hello,

On 11/10/2010 13:22, Gilles Filippini wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  From the answers I've had I infer that there is no standard way of doing
> that.

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Long-repeats#Manual-repeat-marks

AFAIK this is the standard if using Volte.

If you say there is no 'alternate' then you simply make a text markup 
saying 'repeat 4 times' - this is typically right aligned below or above 
the stave where the repeat mark is.

There is no need for any volta brackets at all - although the example 
above is what I often see, even with no alternate endings.

I have even seen 4 repeat bars one after another

\bar ":\" \bar ":\" \bar ":\" \bar ":\"  kind of thing, although that 
isn't that clear to me either.

Having a 'x4' as a rehearsal mark is not particularly informative and I 
know it would cause much head scratching in the orchestra I play in.

It seems to me that you are over-complicating this.

James