Re: Roman numeral for 4 should be iv not iiii

[Nicolas Sceaux]

"Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks,
>
> Nobody in the USA uses Old Roman or even learns it in grade school.  I think
> the future releases should use New Roman as the default or switch to Arabic
> for no confusion.
>
> I have so many "patches" and work-araounds applied to my .scm files that I
> dont think I'll ever be able to upgrade lilypond again without the pains of
> remembering everything I've changed so far, sure wish I had kept a log file
> of my scm changes.
>
> Is there a way to do this override in my music source code instead of having
> to adjust the scm file for fretboards?
>
> thanks for the work around on this,
>
> but to me it's still a bug, because any guitarist is going to be confused by
> the position markers if it's using old roman numerals.  A student brought
> this to my attention who was playing at the wrong position, he was confused
> as will everybody else who looks at my arrangements.

oh actually my answer was more directed to Carl, who wrote the fret
diagram support.

nicolas