Re: Two short questions

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On 28/12/17 15:37, Malte Meyn wrote:
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> Am 28.12.2017 um 16:34 schrieb Malte Meyn:
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>> Am 28.12.2017 um 16:03 schrieb Jérôme Plût:
>>> 1. I am typesetting some music which is in 2/1, and mark using a cut
>>> time signature. How is it possible with Lilypond to put a ℂ symbol for
>>> a 2/1 time ? (see attachment, line 1)
>>
>>    \time 2/1
>>    \set Score.timeSignatureFraction = 2/2
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>>> 2. In virtually all orchestra scores I play the alphabetic marks skip
>>> the letter J. However format-mark-box-letters skips the letter I. So
>>> at each rehearsal this confuses all my colleagues. Since they are
>>> obviously slow to learn that I == J, does there exist a simple way to
>>> make a format-mark-box-letters that uses I instead of J, or should I
>>> start scheming something out of of make-markalphabet-markup?
>>> (see attachment, line 2)
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>> I made a generic mark formatting function that can do that, I just
>> have to find it, give me some minutes ;)
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> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-05/msg00156.html
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> If you (or someone else) like it, I’ll follow Harm’s suggestion in the
> quoted post and make a patch for discussion.
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My reaction would be to take your version, and rewrite all the others to
call it. That way you don't break existing code, but you simplify lily
itself in that there is just one function.

When alphabet was added (for me :-) there was a random mix of frames,
content, etc. Somebody kindly wrote both bar-number and alphabet for me,
and I went through the random muddle pointing out which combinations
were missing, resulting in the (hopefully) sane set we have today :-) So
your function would keep any additions sane, in that any combination is
possible.

Oh, and by the way, to throw yet another variation into the mix, in the
(very few) scores I've seen that go past Z, they all go AA, BB, and not
Aa, Bb.

Cheers,
Wol