Re: do we want special versions of the accidentals for use with text?

2011-09-28 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/9/28 Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org: In fact, the accidentals shouldn't overshoot the height of a normal text: not higher than 'f' and not lower than 'g'. Yes, approximately. I think the question is rather where to position the glyph's baseline. Yes, baseline is most important. It

Re: do we want special versions of the accidentals for use with text?

2011-09-28 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2011, 16:05:51 schrieb Janek Warchoł: I'm not sure i understand - are you saying that we should always align accidentals like in attached 'blah.png'? I.e. chordnames with accidentals should look like 'chords 2.png'? Basically, yes. The image just shows that the

Re: do we want special versions of the accidentals for use with text?

2011-09-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I'm not sure i understand - are you saying that we should always align accidentals like in attached 'blah.png'? Yes, but in this image, the baseline for the sharp is far too high (this is, the accidental is positioned too low) and both accidentals are slightly too big. Werner

Re: do we want special versions of the accidentals for use with text?

2011-09-28 Thread Janek Warchoł
Reinhold, Werner, 2011/9/28 Reinhold Kainhofer reinh...@kainhofer.com: Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2011, 16:05:51 schrieb Janek Warchoł: I'm not sure i understand - are you saying that we should always align accidentals like in attached 'blah.png'? I.e. chordnames with accidentals should look

Re: do we want special versions of the accidentals for use with text?

2011-09-27 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/9/27 Bertrand Bordage bordage.bertr...@gmail.com: This looks great! Thanks! What still needs to be changed in my opinion: * lower the sharp and the natural so that it fits in the text. * decrease the size of all accidentals in markups. I also think they are too big. The question is,

Re: do we want special versions of the accidentals for use with text?

2011-09-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
* decrease the size of all accidentals in markups. I also think they are too big. The question is, how should we achieve that? Is there something like musical-glyphs-font-size-when-used-in-markups? Good question. AFAIK, there isn't such a predefined scaling value which might be a good

Re: do we want special versions of the accidentals for use with text?

2011-09-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
should i change the baseline of the new shorter versions of the glyphs? It should make easier adding them to other notation elements. See attached. Your idea is good. However, I suggest to move down both the sharp and natural sign a bit so that its horizontally oriented elements are nearer

Re: do we want special versions of the accidentals for use with text?

2011-09-21 Thread Werner LEMBERG
For figured bass, the situation is different: Here we use LilyPond's digit font, which is completely under our control, and having accidentals fitting those digits better is a good thing. I will prepare shorter versions of accidentals. Thanks! Would you help me with writing code that

Re: do we want special versions of the accidentals for use with text?

2011-09-21 Thread m...@apollinemike.com
On Sep 21, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: For figured bass, the situation is different: Here we use LilyPond's digit font, which is completely under our control, and having accidentals fitting those digits better is a good thing. I will prepare shorter versions of accidentals.

Re: do we want special versions of the accidentals for use with text?

2011-09-20 Thread Janek Warchoł
2011/9/13 Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org: I think the solution is to create a shorter variaton of accidental glyphs; an example in the attachment.  How do you like this idea? Do you think all accidentals should have shorter versions, or would it be overkill to create for example a shorter

do we want special versions of the accidentals for use with text?

2011-09-12 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, I've noticed that accidental glyphs don't mix well with text: their baseline is incorrect, and their size doesn't match the letters. Look at the chordnames resulting from input below: the accidentals are too big. If they were of correct height, they would become too thin and generally too

Re: do we want special versions of the accidentals for use with text?

2011-09-12 Thread Werner LEMBERG
I think the solution is to create a shorter variaton of accidental glyphs; an example in the attachment. How do you like this idea? Do you think all accidentals should have shorter versions, or would it be overkill to create for example a shorter version of 3-stemmed sharp or arrowed flat?