Hello list, hello Joe, You wrote:
> On 2/2/07, Roland Goretzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ ... ] > >In the following I've listed the lower case characters, which show a > >different behaviour ( > > 1. with "?" they are aligned about .4 or .5 staff spaces > > too high, > > 2. with "." they are aligned about .1 or .2 staff spaces too low, > > 3. and the one with "-" [t] is aligned about only .1 or .2 staff > > spaces too high, > >whereas all upper cases seem to align wrong in the same way, > >about .1 or .2 staff spaces too low. > >): > > > >a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z > >? . ? . ? . ? . . . . . ? ? ? ? ? ? ? - ? ? ? ? ? ? > > With all the work you did in checking the letters, I'm surprised you > didn't see the pattern: the short letters align too high. This is > because lilypond calculates the alignment using the bounding box of > the letters, not the baseline of the glyph. I've thought something like that, but couldn't believe, that this wasn't taken in account until yet at such a glorious program like lilypond is. :-) But surely, it's a program in progress, and things can happen ... ;-) > You're right that it doesn't give good results; this is on my list of > things to fix. Nice to hear this, and I'm awaiting it with many thanks! Best Regards Roland _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
