Re: Extending the width of a glissando

2021-09-20 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Sure, I didn't mean that transforms weren't well-documented. I just suggest a paragraph of NR documentation, possibly linking back to the IR, simply because the kind of technical language we use in IR isn't obvious to understand for most users I would guess (linear transform? complex number?

Re: Extending the width of a glissando

2021-09-20 Thread David Kastrup
Jean Abou Samra writes: > Le 20/09/2021 à 23:55, David Kastrup a écrit : >> Jean Abou Samra writes: >> >>> Le 20/09/2021 à 23:31, David Kastrup a écrit : Jean Abou Samra writes: > Thoughts? One would have to look at the most typical use cases > to decide on an interface.

Re: Extending the width of a glissando

2021-09-20 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 20/09/2021 à 23:55, David Kastrup a écrit : Jean Abou Samra writes: Le 20/09/2021 à 23:31, David Kastrup a écrit : Jean Abou Samra writes: Thoughts? One would have to look at the most typical use cases to decide on an interface. Anything wrong with using a ly:transform? type? It's

Re: Extending the width of a glissando

2021-09-20 Thread David Kastrup
Jean Abou Samra writes: > Le 20/09/2021 à 23:31, David Kastrup a écrit : >> Jean Abou Samra writes: >> >>> Thoughts? One would have to look at the most typical use cases >>> to decide on an interface. >> Anything wrong with using a ly:transform? type? It's straightforward to >> create and

Re: Extending the width of a glissando

2021-09-20 Thread David Kastrup
Jean Abou Samra writes: > Thoughts? One would have to look at the most typical use cases > to decide on an interface. Anything wrong with using a ly:transform? type? It's straightforward to create and manipulate. -- David Kastrup

Re: Extending the width of a glissando

2021-09-20 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 20/09/2021 à 23:31, David Kastrup a écrit : Jean Abou Samra writes: Thoughts? One would have to look at the most typical use cases to decide on an interface. Anything wrong with using a ly:transform? type? It's straightforward to create and manipulate. I had already forgotten about

Re: Extending the width of a glissando

2021-09-20 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 20/09/2021 à 22:02, Lukas-Fabian Moser a écrit : Question to the experts: Am I right in thinking that the documentation is misleading here? That is also my understanding. The rotation property works on a stencil using its own extents, performing the equivalent of ly:stencil-rotate,

Re: Extending the width of a glissando

2021-09-20 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Question to the experts: Am I right in thinking that the documentation is misleading here? That is also my understanding. The rotation property works on a stencil using its own extents, performing the equivalent of ly:stencil-rotate, not ly:stencil-rotate-absolute. After that, LilyPond

Re: Extending the width of a glissando

2021-09-20 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 20/09/2021 à 17:23, Werner LEMBERG a écrit : If I understand it correctly, the "reference point" of a layout object should be its relative (0,0) coordinate. It is possible to display that point using a small function: [...] It would be very nice if appendix A.8, "The Emmentaler font", could

Re: Extending the width of a glissando

2021-09-20 Thread Jean Abou Samra
Le 20/09/2021 à 15:36, Lukas-Fabian Moser a écrit : Hi Peter, One thing puzzles me about the documentation when it comes to placement - it continually refers to the 'reference point' for an object.  I sort of understand what it means, but it doesn't seem to be defined anywhere. For

Re: Extending the width of a glissando

2021-09-20 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> If I understand it correctly, the "reference point" of a layout object > should be its relative (0,0) coordinate. It is possible to display > that point using a small function: [...] It would be very nice if appendix A.8, "The Emmentaler font", could display the metrics boxes as given in the

Re: Extending the width of a glissando

2021-09-20 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Peter, One thing puzzles me about the documentation when it comes to placement - it continually refers to the 'reference point' for an object.  I sort of understand what it means, but it doesn't seem to be defined anywhere. For instance - to rotate a hairpin you have to specify the

Re: Extending the width of a glissando

2021-09-20 Thread Peter Toye
Hello Lukas-Fabian, Thanks again. I was looking at the wrong place in the documentation. There's a fine line to be drawn between tweaking and changing a default when you only want to do it once.   One thing puzzles me about the documentation when it comes to placement - it continually refers

Re: Extending the width of a glissando

2021-09-19 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Peter, Am 19.09.21 um 18:02 schrieb Peter Toye: I need to extend the width of a glissando so that it's visible. There isn't room between the dot and the accidental for any meaningful symbol. As you can see, I've tried various tweaks but none of them has any effect. \version "2.22.1"

Extending the width of a glissando

2021-09-19 Thread Peter Toye
I need to extend the width of a glissando so that it's visible. There isn't room between the dot and the accidental for any meaningful symbol. As you can see, I've tried various tweaks but none of them has any effect. \version "2.22.1" \language "english" {   \override Glissando.style =