Re: Function for rendering key textually in 3 languages

[Thomas Morley]

2012/11/4 Olivier Biot <address@hidden>:
> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Thomas Morley
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 2012/11/4 Thomas Morley <address@hidden>:
>>> Hi Olivier,
>>>
>>> a)
>>> If you define a new `scoreTitleMarkup´, you have to _use_ it. :)
>>>
>>>     \paper {
>>>             scoreTitleMarkup = \myScoreTitleMarkup
>>>     }
>
> Oops... It's defined in book-titling.ily - I modified it there. I
> think I ought to clean up the set of macros I'm using.
>
>>> b)
>>> \fromproperty #'header:piece-tonality will return a stencil not a string.
>>> So every markup-command or scheme-function requiering a
>>> string-argument (or tries to deal with the   argument as a string)
>>> will fail.
>>> P.e: \markup \simple { \fromproperty #'header:piece-tonality }
>>>
>>> Workaround:
>>> Use the markup-command/scheme-function _in_ the \header:
>>>
>>>     \header {
>>>       piece-tonality = \markup \simple "cis-major"
>>>     }
>
> This is new to me. I didn't know what was a stencil. Makes sense.
> Thanks for clarifying this issue to me.
>
>>> c)
>>> My own approach attached, converting `piece-tonality´ into german,
>>> french and english.
>>> Please note: I don't know how double-flat/sharp is called in french,
>>> so I used "double-bémol" and "double-dièse". Should be easy to alter.
>
> That's excellent! It does exactly what I want! Many thanks for this!
> In addition, I'm now exposed to some more builtin Scheme functions and
> procedures. I'm still quite new with Scheme, C/Java/PHP would have
> been easier on me :-)
>

And I would be lost with C/Java/PHP

>> forgot two things:
>> (1)
>> Please change the second line of the markup-command to:
>>
>>   (let* ((arg (string-downcase (markup->string text)))
>
> I see: this one makes sure the argument is first transformed into all
> lowercase, for the sake of safety.

Yep.

>
>> (2)
>> For testing I added a (commented) scheme-function. It does not work
>> with 2.16.0, but needs 17.6.
>
> I'll have to give 17.6 a try then :-)
>
> Again, many, many thanks for your assistance!

You're welcome!

>
> Best regards,
>
> Olivier

Best,
  Harm