Re: Roman Numeral rehearsal marks?

[David Nalesnik]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 8:41 AM N. Andrew Walsh
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi List,
>
> is there any other available format for rehearsal marks? My client wants 
> Roman numerals, and the workaround I've been using:
>
> <>^\markup { \raise #4 \right-align \abs-fontsize #16 \bold { "IV" } }
>
> doesn't work if the voice containing it is resting at that point (or, 
> conversely, I don't know how to ensure that the \markup is always placed on 
> the topmost stave of a system and no others).
>
> Is there a better way to do this? MWE:
>

Based on my reading of scm/translation.functions.scm, I have no idea
why the following should not work:

\version "2.19.82"

\relative c'' {
  \set Score.markFormatter = #(format-mark-generic '(roman box bold mixedcase))
  c1 \mark \default
  c1 \mark \default
}

-David