On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:49 AM, lunar7 wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> My Max/MSP Lilypond input patch is going well but I'm stuck on one feature I 
> wanted to include.
> 
> I have a set of three tables per key signature I am referring to in the event 
> a user wants to use the less likely options for how to notate a note given 
> its MIDI pitch (i.e. note number 60 could be c, but also a bis or deses). If 
> a user wants to toggle between options, to do this I want to initially markup 
> the notes with "index" numbers using fingering markup for an unintended 
> purpose. To my amazement, without overriding the fingering markup command 
> accepts numbers up to 9, but anything two digits or above produces an 
> "unexpected string" error.
> 
> Is there a way I can override this to tag a note with any number I want? Then 
> users can specify the note numbers they want toggled to alternate versions.
c4^"999999"

if you want it to look like fingering, c^\markup \finger {9999999}.

Hope this helps
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