On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:44 PM, m...@apollinemike.com <m...@apollinemike.com> wrote: > The problem is that Lilypond processes graphical objects before it processes > pagination, making it impossible to know exactly how much space a footnote > will take up when the graphical object is processed. > > One solution to this problem would be to reprocess all top-level markups > with correct footnotes after having done the pagination, then redo the > pagination and see if all the footnotes stay the same. If so, keep the > current configuration. Otherwise, rinse & repeat. This actually seems > kinda sorta doable, although I'd have to do some homework on how these > markups are stored internally and figure out to what extent these internal > representations survive downstream into the pagination phase. >
Overall comment: I think we should avoid 2 pass solutions if we can help it. Have you thought of setting a fixed width/height for the number and later filling it in? -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
