Re: Modify ly:duration->string

Hi Harm,

Am 10.05.26 um 12:36 schrieb Thomas Morley:
> consider the following:
> #(pretty-print (ly:duration->string (ly:make-duration -3)))
> returning:
> "log = -3"
>
> Is it possible to let it return "maxima" (similar for "longa", "breve")?
> To be more precise, this is a request to modify ly:duration->string (I
> have already some clumsy custom code to deal with negative durations).

Of course it's basically no problem to make this change (I assume it's 
the fact that ly:duration->string is implemented in C++ that makes you 
ask this question in the first place).

But I have a slight issue with that: One might hard-code 
ly:duration->string to output

\maxima

etc. (which I'd prefer to 'maxima', since all other duration strings 
returned by the function are valid LilyPond syntax).

But "maxima" is not a term that's baked into the C++ part of LilyPond, 
but it's a (so to speak) arbitrary definition in 
ly/declarations-init.ly. It would, at first glance, feel strange to me 
to implement this term unconditionally in the C++ code as a return 
string for ly:duration->string ...

What do you think?

Lukas