Fwd: Capitalized text

[Jean Abou Samra]

(Sorry, sent privately by accident.)

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> Expéditeur: Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr>
> Date: 28 juin 2021 12:03:25 UTC+2
> Destinataire: Dan Eble <nine.fierce.ballads@gmail.com>
> Objet: Rép : Capitalized text
> 
> 
> 
>> Le 27 juin 2021 à 21:19, Dan Eble <nine.fierce.ballads@gmail.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> I am working on a grob for section labels.  I want to recommend that the 
>> user encode the section name in title case (Coda), but I want LilyPond to 
>> render it in all caps (CODA) by default.
> 
> 
> Could you elaborate? Isn't setting the label through a property just as 
> simple? (I don't have the technical background on your work.)
> 
> I vaguely recall Coda in small caps. Is all caps Gould advice?
> 
> 
>> Is there already a grob property to enable this transformation?  I've hacked 
>> in a callback that calls string-upcase when my new grob is created, but this 
>> seems like a problem that ought to have a general solution.
>> 
>> If this is not currently possible, would Text_interface::interpret_string() 
>> be the most appropriate place to implement it?
> 
> I am not aware of it being implemented. You'd not want to call string-upcase 
> on the property directly since that would only work on strings, not any 
> markup. text-interface.cc already does string replacements, so uppercasing 
> should fit there.
> 
> HTH
> 
> 
>> Thanks,
>> — 
>> Dan
>> 
>>