Re: Boxed bar numbers used as rehearsal marks

[Mats Bengtsson]

Actually, the initial mail of this thread contained a better solution
to the problem. Since I weren't used to seeing bar numbers at irregular
intervals and since I first missed that the point was to have boxed
bar numbers instead of boxed letters, I proposed some other solutions.

   /Mats


Paul Scott wrote:
> Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
>
> > In message <address@hidden>, Mats Bengtsson 
> > <address@hidden> writes
> >
> > > Sorry, I'll learn to read some time. However, if you want boxed
> > > bar numbers, then I propose to take a look at the example
> > > bar-number-regular-interval.ly in the Tips and Tricks document,
> > > which automatically gives boxed bar numbers at regular intervals
> > > without any \mark commands in the code.
> >
> >
> >
> > Except that's NOT what is wanted. What is wanted is a rehearsal mark, 
> > which is normally used at the start of a segue or new melody - ie at 
> > random not regular intervals.
> >
> > For example, the piece I've just been doing (admittedly I've been 
> > using letters) has marks at various intervals - sometimes 4, often 8, 
> > sometimes 12 bars.
> >
> > And just this evening I've been playing pieces marked up exactly as 
> > the OP referred to - using bar numbers as rehearsal marks at random 
> > intervals. This is *typical* of medley-style Concert Band pieces.
>
>
> Since you have to manually place the \mark commands anyway it might not 
> be that much more trouble to just put the bar numbers in manually.  You 
> can just put this at the beginning to avoid having to use \markup and 
> \box and \mark
>    \override Score.RehearsalMark  #'print-function =
>    #(make-stencil-boxer 0.15 0.3 0.3 Text_interface::print)
>
> OTOH if you don't know ahead of time what the bar numbers will be (maybe 
> you want to move things around) it would be great to know how to build 
> an expression which will get the current bar number and put it into the 
> \mark.  It looks like Christian might be close.  It would be great to 
> have an answer to Christian's original question.
>
> Paul Scott
>
>
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