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

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

address@hidden:/usr/local/tmp/lilypond$ git grep vector-map
scm/music-functions.scm:(define (vector-map f v)

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David Kastrup