format-mark-* Was: \set vs \override

[Mats Bengtsson]

Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
> > \set Score.markFormatter = #format-mark-alphabet
> > ==============================================
> Following up a bit late, I know ...
>
> If you look back at when format-mark-alphabet first appeared, you'll 
> find I featured prominently (and ineptly :-)
>
> I wanted the functionality, tried to write it and got into a mess. 
> Somebody else kindly added it for me, along with various other 
> features such as using bar numbers as rehearsal marks.
>
> And as part of that, I understand that ALL combinations of "mark on 
> its own", "mark in a circle" and "mark in box" crossed with 
> bar-number, number, letter and alphabet were created.
>
> I can't remember the scheme file name, but iirc they are all in the 
> same file, if anyone wants to check, but the documentation should say 
> that ANY and ALL combinations of mark and mark-formatting should work, 
> and if they don't it's a bug.
Running the command "grep format-mark- scm/translation-functions.scm" in 
Linux gives the following list of functions:

(define-public (format-mark-alphabet mark context)
(define-public (format-mark-box-alphabet mark context)
(define-public (format-mark-circle-alphabet mark context)
(define-public (format-mark-letters mark context)
(define-public (format-mark-numbers mark context)
(define-public (format-mark-barnumbers mark context)
(define-public (format-mark-box-letters mark context)
(define-public (format-mark-circle-letters mark context)
(define-public (format-mark-box-numbers mark context)
(define-public (format-mark-circle-numbers mark context)
(define-public (format-mark-box-barnumbers mark context)
(define-public (format-mark-circle-barnumbers mark context)

The documentation in Documentation/notation/rhythms.itely doesn't seem 
to have been updated since these were introduced. I'm already 5 minutes 
late for a meeting, otherwise I would have fixed it myself, but perhaps 
some frog can do it.

    /Mats