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Re: Function for rendering key textually in 3 languages
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Olivier Biot |
Subject: |
Re: Function for rendering key textually in 3 languages |
Date: |
Sun, 4 Nov 2012 22:59:52 +0100 |
On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Thomas Morley
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 2012/11/4 Thomas Morley <address@hidden>:
>> Hi Olivier,
>>
>> a)
>> If you define a new `scoreTitleMarkup´, you have to _use_ it. :)
>>
>> \paper {
>> scoreTitleMarkup = \myScoreTitleMarkup
>> }
Oops... It's defined in book-titling.ily - I modified it there. I
think I ought to clean up the set of macros I'm using.
>> b)
>> \fromproperty #'header:piece-tonality will return a stencil not a string.
>> So every markup-command or scheme-function requiering a
>> string-argument (or tries to deal with the argument as a string)
>> will fail.
>> P.e: \markup \simple { \fromproperty #'header:piece-tonality }
>>
>> Workaround:
>> Use the markup-command/scheme-function _in_ the \header:
>>
>> \header {
>> piece-tonality = \markup \simple "cis-major"
>> }
This is new to me. I didn't know what was a stencil. Makes sense.
Thanks for clarifying this issue to me.
>> c)
>> My own approach attached, converting `piece-tonality´ into german,
>> french and english.
>> Please note: I don't know how double-flat/sharp is called in french,
>> so I used "double-bémol" and "double-dièse". Should be easy to alter.
That's excellent! It does exactly what I want! Many thanks for this!
In addition, I'm now exposed to some more builtin Scheme functions and
procedures. I'm still quite new with Scheme, C/Java/PHP would have
been easier on me :-)
> forgot two things:
> (1)
> Please change the second line of the markup-command to:
>
> (let* ((arg (string-downcase (markup->string text)))
I see: this one makes sure the argument is first transformed into all
lowercase, for the sake of safety.
> (2)
> For testing I added a (commented) scheme-function. It does not work
> with 2.16.0, but needs 17.6.
I'll have to give 17.6 a try then :-)
Again, many, many thanks for your assistance!
Best regards,
Olivier
- Re: Function for rendering key textually in 3 languages, Olivier Biot, 2012/11/02
- Re: Function for rendering key textually in 3 languages, Olivier Biot, 2012/11/03
- Re: Function for rendering key textually in 3 languages, David Kastrup, 2012/11/03
- Re: Function for rendering key textually in 3 languages, Olivier Biot, 2012/11/03
- Re: Function for rendering key textually in 3 languages, Olivier Biot, 2012/11/03
- Re: Function for rendering key textually in 3 languages, David Kastrup, 2012/11/03
- Re: Function for rendering key textually in 3 languages, Olivier Biot, 2012/11/03
- Re: Function for rendering key textually in 3 languages, Thomas Morley, 2012/11/04
- Re: Function for rendering key textually in 3 languages, Thomas Morley, 2012/11/04
- Re: Function for rendering key textually in 3 languages,
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- Re: Function for rendering key textually in 3 languages, Thomas Morley, 2012/11/04