Re: Shifting a markup

[Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool)]

I thought that the documentation generator (IIRC a scheme script) could 
handle this. Now I can see, that this is not the case as RehearsalMark 
contains the definition of (direction . ,UP) and it is still displayed as 1.


Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Bertalan Fodor (LilyPondTool) wrote:
> > > > For the record, I believe *any* value (i.e., not necessarily in the 
> > > > range [-1,1]) may be specified.
> > > True! Also, don't forget the convenient definitions that let you say 
> > > #LEFT instead of #-1,
> > > #RIGHT instead of #+1 and #CENTER instead of ...
> > Wouldn't it be a good idea to use those as the defaults? That way 
> > users could see that they can use these convenient definitions.
> You mean to print these instead of the numeric values in the 
> internal/program reference
> document? Well, if you can figure out any clever way let the automatic 
> documentation
> generator figure out if +1 should mean +1 or #UP or #RIGHT in every 
> situation, then
> this would be a great feature. However, based on how this 
> documentation currently
> is generated, I cannot conceive how that could be done.
>
>    /Mats