Torsten Hämmerle <[email protected]> writes: > Indeed, Karlin, > > you are perfectly right - thanks for the observation! > This is definitely not a Windows problem, it's an unwanted side effect of > using negative string distances: > The total width (5 times the string distance on a 6 string instrument) has > to be increased by the half the line thickness on either side in order to > neatly align. > > In our mirrored case, the (negative!) line thickness is added, i.e. the line > thickness is actually being subtracted (!), so that the horizontal bar (the > "nut") aligns with the inner margins of the "strings" rather than the outer > margins. > > If we want to deliberately and officially use the negative string distance > hack, we could adapt the width calculation by just adding the *absolute > value of the string thickness* (thus ignoring the sign of string-distance) - > that'll do the trick.
Definitely think we should do that. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
