Re: bar number position (direction) numerical definitions overlap

[Paul Scott]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Quoting Paul Scott <address@hidden>:
>
> > At least in the last several versions of the manual (this is from 
> > 2.9.12) the following appears implying that you can't have both UP 
> > and RIGHT or DOWN and LEFT:
>
> Yes, that's correct. For some layout objects, the direction property
> works horizontally (so you can get LEFT or RIGHT or any numerical 
> value inbetween or even further left or right) and for other objects
> the direction property works vertically (so you can get UP or DOWN).
>
> Note that, internally, both #LEFT and #DOWN are shorthands for the 
> numerical value -1.0 and similarly, #UP = #RIGHT = 1.0, so you if you 
> want to confuse the reader of your .ly file, you can for example use
> \override BarNumber #'direction = #LEFT
> which will result in bar numbers placed below the score lines.
>
> Note also that for technical reasons we cannot have different
> versions of the documentation texts of the direction property
> for different objects, even though it would be more pedagogical
> to only mention #UP and #DOWN for objects where that's relevant
> and #LEFT and #RIGHT for the rest.
Yes.  I understood that but I guess I left the reader too much to infer 
from my message.

There are four possible places to put the bar number:
upper left, upper right, lower left and lower right.  There either needs 
to be two direction variables - one horizontal and one vertical - or a 
differently named variable (position?) with four possible values.

Sorry about the incomplete communication,

Paul