Issue 1254: Confusing display of short dance type and bar count on crib page

Object

The Yellow-Haired Laddie (Dance)

Submitter

Murrough Landon (murrough)

Assigned to

Anselm Lingnau

Priority

Normal

Disposition

Fixed

Description

This dance has dance type “3/4 time” which is abbreviated to “3/4” when used in the headers of the cribs on the crib/diagram page. Normally its nice that the abbreviated dance type (usually the single character R, S etc) is run together with the bar count to give eg R32. However in this case the result is “3/464” for a 3/4 time dance with 64 bars. This looks rather odd! (The diagram is a bit clearer).

Since the abbreviated form of this entry in the dancetype table is already several characters perhaps it could have an internal trailing space or other punctuation to end up with eg “3/4 64”?

(I was told about this unusual dance today by a friend who proposed to teach it next month, but I imagine it is not done very often so it seems unlikely anyone else will worry about this for many years - and there are only four 3/4 time dances in the database so perhaps not worth worrying about at all).

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