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

[Malte Meyn]

Am 16.08.2015 um 22:00 schrieb 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.
I don’t have the time to discuss this and make a patch but if anyone is 
interested: Some time ago I implemented a single markFormatter function 
which can do this and some other things (roman numbers, oval frames, 
lowercase/mixed case marks).

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