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5.8.4 Manual repeat commands

The property repeatCommands can be used to control the layout of repeats. Its value is a Scheme list of repeat commands.

start-repeat
Print a |: bar line.
end-repeat
Print a :| bar line.
(volta text)
Print a volta bracket saying text: The text can be specified as a text string or as a markup text, see Text markup. Do not forget to change the font, as the default number font does not contain alphabetic characters;
(volta #f)
Stop a running volta bracket.
     c4
       \set Score.repeatCommands = #'((volta "93") end-repeat)
     c4 c4
       \set Score.repeatCommands = #'((volta #f))
     c4 c4

[image of music]

See also

Program reference: VoltaBracket (lilypond-internals) , RepeatedMusic (lilypond-internals) , VoltaRepeatedMusic (lilypond-internals) , UnfoldedRepeatedMusic (lilypond-internals) , and FoldedRepeatedMusic (lilypond-internals) .

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