On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Kieren MacMillan <
kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> > you could just as easily write the following:
> >
> > \header {
> > myTitle = #"myOtherTitle"
> > title = \markup {
> > from \italic #(string-upcase myTitle)
> > }
> > }
>
> Yes, but at that point, why not just write
>
> \header {
> title = “MY OTHER TITLE"
> }
>
> ?? ;)
>
This might prove the least labor-intensive solution :)
>
> Here’s the concrete use-case:
> 1. I have musical theatre pieces with (naturally enough) title case
> titles, such as “My Lucky Day”.
> 2. When they’re included in the Piano/Conductor score (or other score from
> the regular performance materials), the title should remain in title case.
> 3. When they’re included in a songbook, I’m trying to show the title in
> the the expected format, which is all-caps (cf. modern Warner-Chappell
> imprints), e.g., “MY LUCKY DAY”.
> 4. I want to accomplish this entirely in the stylesheets, and not have to
> have two different ways of inputting the title in the code/content.
>
> It seems odd to me that it’s so convoluted a process — and apparently so
> different, depending on whether it’s a string or a property. =\
To make the title uppercase we have to work with it as a string. I can't
extract the string from the \markup \fromproperty #'header:title statement,
presumably because header:title hasn't even been defined yet:
\header {
title = "myTitle"
title = \markup \fromproperty #'header:title
#(format #t "~%is header:title defined? ~a~%~%" (defined? 'header:title))
}
\markup {
\null
}
%%
David
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