From 750ce57eb74c27a0e85e03d1f76c8c8a41e19efd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gpercival <gpercival>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:19:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added info about boxed bar numbers.
---
ChangeLog | 5 +++++
Documentation/user/notation.itely | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index aeb3a14b61..d44fec5bcc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-11-20 Graham Percival <gperlist@shaw.ca>
+
+ * Documentation/user/notation.itely: added info about typesetting
+ boxed bar numbers.
+
2004-11-20 Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
* flower/interval.cc (T_to_string): gcc4 fixes.
diff --git a/Documentation/user/notation.itely b/Documentation/user/notation.itely
index e66b2368a7..b37a61d8b8 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/notation.itely
+++ b/Documentation/user/notation.itely
@@ -4995,6 +4995,8 @@ c1 \mark \default
@c umm, is the manual the right place for feature requests? :) -gp
@c FIXME - should make that tunable.
+To use boxed bar numbers instead of letters, see @ref{Bar numbers}.
+
The mark is incremented automatically if you use @code{\mark
\default}, but you can also use an integer argument to set the mark
manually. The value to use is stored in the property
@@ -5070,7 +5072,7 @@ Examples: @inputfileref{input/@/regression,rehearsal@/-mark@/-letter@/.ly},
@subsection Bar numbers
-@cindex bar numbers
+@cindex Bar numbers
@cindex measure numbers
@cindex @code{currentBarNumber}
@@ -5085,6 +5087,20 @@ whose source is available as
@lilypondfile[raggedright,quote]{bar-number-regular-interval.ly}
+Bar numbers can be typeset manually by tweaking the
+@code{markFormatter} property
+
+@lilypond[verbatim,raggedright,quote]
+\relative c' {
+ \set Score.markFormatter
+ = #(lambda (mark context)
+ (make-bold-markup
+ (make-box-markup (number->string (ly:context-property context 'currentBarNumber)))))
+
+ c1 \bar "||" \mark \default c1 c1 \mark \default c1 \bar "|."
+}
+@end lilypond
+
Bar numbers can be manually changed by setting the
@code{Staff.currentBarNumber} property
--
2.39.5