Figures -- I did a few searches looking for automatic bar numbering per this question without finding it, but as soon as I look for something else I found "Printing bar numbers inside boxes or circles" at https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/bars#bar-numbers, and that got things working well enough.
Evan On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 11:44 PM Evan Driscoll <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm duplicating a part that has a couple of different ways of indicating > locations. > > The first way is boxed measure numbers inline every five bars, kind of > like how rehearsal numbers are often indicated, but the current measure > count rather than a sequentially increasing number or letter. > > The second way -- this is a theme and variations structure -- is roman > numerals indicating the current variation number. > > What would people suggest as the best way to translate this into Lilypond? > > Can I somehow set it up to automatically do the measure numbers then use > \mark to get the variation numbers? I think that'd be ideal if it's > reasonable. (I found [1] as a past discussion of how to get roman numerals, > though I haven't tried if the exact syntax still works.) Should I use \mark > to get the measure numbers (how would I get the automatic numbering?) and > the variation numbers another way? Use \mark for everything and just > manually specify the string each time? Is there some way to overlook? > > Evan > > [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg130982.html >
