Joe Neeman escreveu: > On 1/25/07, Han-Wen Nienhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hello Joe, >> >> 2 questions >> >> 1. do you see any reason to use >> >> ly:side-position-interface::y-aligned-side >> >> for Y-offset callbacks on stuff that uses outside-staff-priority? > > It makes certain user-overrides a little easier. Since > outside-staff-priority only ever pushes objects away from the staff, > you could add extra padding to an outside-staff-priority object to > give things a more uniform appearance, for example.
Ah, I thought it replaced the y-positioning wholesale, but it starts from the position calculated by y-aligned-side instead? >> 2. it would be cool if it were possible to position several grobs as a >> single outline. Right now, we use DynamicLineSpanner to ensure that >> all related dynamics stay on one Y position, but I suspect that it >> should be possible to use the outside-staff-prority stuff to do that. >> Do you think you could pull that off? Of course, the grobs will be marked >> so that it is possible to distinguish related groups of dynamics. >> >> The same holds for piano pedals. If we could do this, this would simplify >> dynamics-engraver a lot, and we could scrap piano-pedal-align-engraver. > > Sure, I'll give that a try. As far as distinguishing related dynamics > goes, what if each DynamicText (PianoPedal, etc.) just had a pointer > to the next related one? Then you have a lot of flexibility (in the > backend at least) because you can align arbitrary grob types (eg. a > DynamicText with a VoltaBracket). Sounds like a good idea. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen LilyPond Software Design -- Code for Music Notation http://www.lilypond-design.com _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
