Re: Old style numerals for page numbers

2012-03-14 Thread Jan-Peter Voigt
Hi Ben, the problem is, that these markup-command allow a markup as argument, but they are expecting strings to process. So if you redefine the markup-command: --snip-- #(define-markup-command (oldStyleNum layout props str) (string-or-symbol?) Old-style numerals (if (symbol? str)(set! str

Re: Old style numerals for page numbers

2012-03-14 Thread Shane Brandes
Wouldn't it be simpler to simply use a font that has old style figures? Shane On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:32 AM, Jan-Peter Voigt jp.vo...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Ben, the problem is, that these markup-command allow a markup as argument, but they are expecting strings to process. So if you redefine

Old style numerals for page numbers

2012-03-13 Thread Benjamin Bloomfield
I tried sending this earlier, but didn't receive it myself, so I am trying again. I am trying to figure out how I can get Old Style numerals to be used for the page numbers. I found some lilypond scheme code here (http://www.mrlauer.org/music/) that defines a markup command oldStyleNum that will

Old style numerals for page numbers

2012-03-13 Thread Benjamin Bloomfield
I am trying to figure out how I can get Old Style numerals to be used for the page numbers. I found some scheme code here (http://www.mrlauer.org/music/) that defines a markup command oldStyleNum that will replace any digit with the unicode string for the appropriate old style numeral.

Re: Old style numerals for page numbers

2012-03-13 Thread James
Hello On 13 March 2012 15:40, Benjamin Bloomfield bhb...@gmail.com wrote: I tried sending this earlier, but didn't receive it myself, so I am trying again. For some reason this email ended up marked as 'spam' for me. So maybe that was the reason? -- -- James