Re: non-numeric bar "numbers"

[Paul Scott]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> It shouldn't be hard to make a modified version of one of the standard
> functions format-mark-alphabet, format-mark-numbers, ... that are 
> available
> in LilyPond and use
> \set Score.markFormatter = #whatever-I-call-my-own-fancy-formatter
> However, the automatic incrementation of the number is implemented in
> C++ today and only handles a single counter, so if you want two of them
> (I'm not sure I understand exactly what you want), you would probably 
> have
> to handle the other counter as a property that is read and set by your 
> formatter
> function.
Since in unicode B comes after A that same incrementer *might* be usable.

Thanks, Mats.  I'll have a look at that when I find some more time.

Paul
>   /Mats
>
> Paul Scott wrote:
>
> > Some show music uses more than just numbers for bar identification 
> > for certain bars.  For example an introduction might be "numbered" A, 
> > B, C, etc. and then inserted bars may be "numbered" 67A, 67B, etc.  
> > What would it cost to sponsor something like:  currentBarNumber =  
> > (#number . #letter) where if the letter was present it would be 
> > incremented instead of the number?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Paul Scott
> >
> >
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