Hi Jan/Wols, Thank you for responding. I have tinkered with \applyContext and cannot get the property out of it to do anything useful with it. Since it always returns music I can't feed it to a markup command or convert it to markup or set it as the value for a property (using a callback or something like that). I have tried using it to set! another property and print that, but it doesn't work.
I tried looking at the code for the rehearsal mark engraver, but it's in C++ and I don't understand it (and I suspect context objects are in the #included contexts.hh). I also looked at the code for the Measure_counter_engraver, which is in scheme, but it takes a context object as its parameter, which doesn't seem to get me any closer. I must be misunderstanding something. My best attempt is below. Any further help would be appreciated. #(define-markup-command (print-bar-number layout props) () (define barnum 0) (let* ((setbarnum (lambda (context) (set! barnum (ly:context-property context 'currentBarNumber))))) (make-apply-context setbarnum) (interpret-markup layout props (markup (number->string barnum))))) \repeat unfold 3 { b1^\markup \print-bar-number } Kevin _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user