Re: Documentation (was: Help! \mark, and lesson in Scheme)

[Erlend Aasland]

Hello

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:50:05 +0000, Anthony W. Youngman
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Note that this will require somebody to take my code, check it, and
> create a proper patch to add it :-) or help me to do it, which I'm quite
> happy to do but need help with!
I also agree with you that a format-mark-alphabet function would be
useful. It's easy to code, and it gives new users an easy way to use
this kind of rehersal marks.

Based on your mail I've created a patch for this. I see no reason to
exclude this kind of rehersal mark, as other popular programs (for
example Sibelius) provides this. With this patch and my
format-mark-barnumber patch we'll provide four different types of
rehersal marks: letters, numbers, barnumbers, and alphabet. All with
or without surrounding boxes. This gives our users more flexibility
than most other programs I've tried.

Erlend

> 
> By the way, a bit further down the docu claims that the default is
> format-mark-numbers. This does not appear to be true, both from the
> example at the start, and from my experience. This para should
> presumably be modified (once all these functions are added) to read:
> 
> "The file 'scm/translation-functions.scm' contains the definitions of
> format-mark-letters (the default), format-mark-alphabet,
> format-mark-number and format-mark-barnumber, along with their -box-
> equivalents (format-mark-box-letters etc). These can be used as
> inspiration for other formatting functions."
> 
> Not that anyone is suggesting that these functions won't be added, but I
> think we do need them in the standard install. Without them, you can't
> cater for some fifty percent of band music, which will lose you all the
> military bands. Certainly in the UK, bandsmen play two instruments (from
> different families - which often includes strings), and that could
> easily lose you a load of orchestras, too.
> >
> >Regards,
> >  Erlend Aasland
> >
> Cheers,
> Wol
> --
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