Re: format-mark function for A, B, C, …, X, Y, Z, Aa, Bb, Cc, …

[Thomas Morley]

2015-08-16 21:21 GMT+02:00 Malte Meyn <address@hidden>:
> Hi list,
>
> sometimes there are more than 25 or 26 rehearsal marks in a piece.
> LilyPond’s format-mark-(alphabet|letters) function and friends continue
> after X, Y, Z with AA, AB, AC, …
>
> I have never seen this in printed scores. Instead all scores I’ve seen
> continue with doubled letters (the second lowercase): Aa, Bb, Cc. And once
> I’ve even seen … Yy, Zz, Aaa, Bbb, …
>
> I made functions format-mark-(alphabet|letter)-var and boxed and circled
> variants which implement this behaviour (see attached patch). So now I would
> like to know:
>
> Is there an interest in having this behaviour in LilyPond (maybe as a
> variant)? Or have you seen something similar (f. e. everything uppercase)?
> If so, how to name these functions? And would I have to post this to bug- or
> dev-list? They’re not perfect yet, for example I didn’t know how to use
> vector-map ;)
>
> Or is this something for openlilylib instead of original LilyPond?
>
> Malte

Hi Malte,

you could discuss on -devel.

Maybe I'd let the patch discuss after it is part of the usual review process.
I.e. issue created, patch uploaded.

For now:
vector-map is not part of guile v1.8
guile v2 contains it, but v2 is still not usable for us, afaik.


Cheers,
  Harm