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3.8.3 Manual repeat commands

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

the symbol start-repeat,
which prints a |: bar line,
the symbol end-repeat,
which prints a :| bar line,
the list (volta text),
which prints 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. Or,
the list (volta #f), which
stops 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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