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Re: Roman numeral for 4 should be iv not iiii
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Nicolas Sceaux |
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Re: Roman numeral for 4 should be iv not iiii |
Date: |
Mon, 08 May 2006 22:27:24 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) |
"Rick Hansen (aka RickH)" <address@hidden> 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':
address@hidden 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 "address@hidden" 89) -| LXXXIX ;; roman
(format #t "~@:r" 89) -| LXXXVIIII ;; old roman
If "IV" is supposed to be the correct output, iso. "IIII", then the
"address@hidden" format directive should be used in scm/fret-diagrams.scm,
iso. "~@:r".
nicolas