Re: \set vs \override

[David Kastrup]

Nick Payne <address@hidden> writes:

> Carl Sorensen wrote:
>>
>> On 11/24/09 2:57 AM, "Nick Payne" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>   
>>> James Worlton wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In 2.13.6 I did a project and used:
>>>> \set Score.markFormatter = #format-mark-box-alphabet
>>>> and I got the boxes and the letter I (all in one command!)
>>>>       
>>> Thanks for that. That particular value for set
>>> (format-mark-box-alphabet) doesn't seem to appear anywhere in the
>>> documentation - or at least, I can't find it in the PDF documentation,
>>> which is what I use.
>>>     
>>
>> This must be a bug in the documentation.
>>
>> Nick, could you figure out where it should go, and write a bit of text and a
>> simple example, so we can add it to the docs?
>>   
> Well I only have/use the PDF documentation, and the section on
> Rehearsal marks is on p.74 of the 2.13.7 Notation reference. After the
> initial example, it presently says:

That's a lot of orthogonal functionality.  Maybe one should just make
\set Score.markFormatter = #(format-mark-alphabet format-mark-box) work
by letting format-mark-alphabet checking its argument, and if it is a
function, create a closure from it that transforms the number properly?

Being able to stack closures in that manner might be convenient in other
cases as well.

-- 
David Kastrup