Re: [Denemo-devel] Rehearsal mark "I" from transcribed source.

[Richard Shann]

On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 12:33 +0000, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
> Lilypond seems to concede that you CAN have an I if you must!
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> On 18/02/2017 17:50, Richard Shann wrote:
> > On Sat, 2017-02-18 at 13:00 +0000, Joe Wilkinson wrote:
> >> Lilypond doesn't accept I due to "standard practice".

This is a strange way of wording the situation - LilyPond is not
"accepting" or "rejecting" a rehearsal letter. It's default is to
generate un-boxed rehearsal letters with "I" omitted, as in the
engraving tradition it mimics.
What I didn't realize is that the boxed-letter option that I provided in
Denemo gives boxed letters with "I" included.

>  But other scores
> >> do, so transcribing a part to transpose it produces problems.
> > Hmm, the boxed rehearsal mark style *does* include I, it's documented
> > here:
> >
> > documented at
> > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/bars#rehearsal-marks
> >
> >
> > So choosing boxed alphabetic does generate I and, in fact, it's not
> > clear how you create boxed rehearsal marks skipping the I, this being, I
> > think a bug in the LilyPond documentation

well, it's not that the documentation makes an incorrect statement, just
strange that the range of options has the inclusion of "I" and "boxed"
bundled together. I see you can have bar numbers as rehearsal marks as
well. It seems that they are inviting you to write any further variants
you may wish for yourself - they explain that the procedure takes a
number (i.e. the count of the rehearsal mark from the start) and outputs
some markup. You would look at their examples (in the LilyPond directory
"ly") to get a model to follow.

I assume you have the output you were looking for now?

Richard