Re: Roman numeral for 4 should be iv not iiii

[Rick Hansen (aka RickH)]

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)" <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
> 
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