first-page-number (possible bug here?)

[Rick Hansen (aka RickH)]

I believe I've uncovered a bug in page numbering, but wanted to run it by
here first.  In the example below I explicitely initialize the
"first-page-number" to #4.  In the footer markup I use the expression:

\fromproperty #'page:page-number-string

to display the page numbers mirrored even/odd for 2 side printing.

The problem is that the page number still comes out as 1 even though I told
it the first page number must be 4.  It appears as though lilypond is not
initializing the "page:page-number-string" properly at the outset.

Is there a work-around for this?  (I cant abandon the use of custom
odd/evenFooterMarkup properties because I will be programatically building
this source code from a copyright database that I have in another
application).  So any work-around should still use custom odd/even footer
markup.

The example below will run as-is, using version 2.9.18

thanks
Rick


%EXAMPLE BEGIN

\version "2.9.18"
\include "english.ly"

#(set-default-paper-size "letter" 'portrait)

\paper {
   paper-height = 11.0\in
   paper-width = 8.5\in
   line-width = 7.7\in
   left-margin = 0.4\in
   top-margin = 0.25\in
   bottom-margin = 0.25\in
   page-top-space = 0.0\in
   foot-separation = 0.0\in
   head-separation = 0.0\in
   after-title-space = 0.0\in
   between-title-space = 0.0\in
   horizontal-shift = 0.0\in
   annotate-spacing = ##f
   between-system-padding = #1
   between-system-space = #30
   first-page-number = #4
   printfirst-page-number = ##f
   print-page-number = ##f
   oddFooterMarkup = \markup { \fill-line { \hspace #0 { \bold \fromproperty
#'page:page-number-string } } }
   evenFooterMarkup = \markup { \fill-line { { \bold \fromproperty
#'page:page-number-string } \hspace #0 } }
}

   \new Staff \with {
   }
   {
         \clef "treble"
         \key c \major
         \time 4/4
         \relative c'' {
            %1
            af8. g16 f8. ef16 f4. g8
            |
            %2
            bf8. af16 g8. f16 af4. bf8
            |
            %3
            ef8. d16 c8. bf16 c2
            |
            %4
            r2 r4 d4
            |
            %5
            f8. ef16 d8. c16 d4 ef
            |
         }
   }



%EXAMPLE END


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