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This snippet shows how to implement a counter in LilyPond for use in markup texts. Whenever you call the <code>\counter "name"</code> markup function, the counter named <code>name</code> will be increased by one and the new value will be printed as a text markup. The first call will print “1” by default. Example:
This snippet shows how to implement a counter in LilyPond for use in markup texts. Whenever you call the <code>\counter #"name"</code> markup function, the counter named <code>name</code> will be increased by one and the new value will be printed as a text markup. The first call will print “1” by default. Example:


  \markup {
  \markup {