Thanks, Nobody in the USA uses Old Roman or even learns it in grade school. I think the future releases should use New Roman as the default or switch to Arabic for no confusion.
I have so many "patches" and work-araounds applied to my .scm files that I dont think I'll ever be able to upgrade lilypond again without the pains of remembering everything I've changed so far, sure wish I had kept a log file of my scm changes. Is there a way to do this override in my music source code instead of having to adjust the scm file for fretboards? thanks for the work around on this, but to me it's still a bug, because any guitarist is going to be confused by the position markers if it's using old roman numerals. A student brought this to my attention who was playing at the wrong position, he was confused as will everybody else who looks at my arrangements. Nicolas Sceaux wrote: > > "Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm using 2.8.0 >> >> This is a minor bug, probably easy to fix... >> >> For guitar fret board markup, the position marker.... >> >> When the 4th fretting postion is called for, it prints "iiii" instead of >> "iv", there is no such thing as roman numeral "iiii". I'm pretty sure >> all >> the other roman numerals are ok. >> >> thanks >> Rick > > Guile manual for `format': > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] gives roman numerals and ~@:r gives old roman numerals. > In old > roman numerals there's no “subtraction”, so 9 is VIIII instead of IX. In > both cases only positive numbers can be output. > > (format #t "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 89) -| LXXXIX ;; roman > (format #t "~@:r" 89) -| LXXXVIIII ;; old roman > > If "IV" is supposed to be the correct output, iso. "IIII", then the > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" format directive should be used in scm/fret-diagrams.scm, > iso. "~@:r". > > nicolas > > > _______________________________________________ > bug-lilypond mailing list > bug-lilypond@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Roman-numeral-for-4-should-be-iv-not-iiii-t1577627.html#a4289149 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - Bugs forum at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
