On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:57 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: >>> From what i see, the skylines are now more precise than they need to >>> be - every glyph has a skyline of 10 or so boxes, even if it's a >>> single letter! (see attached) >>> I think the proper solution would be to: >>> a) set minimal "step" size to 0.2 staffspace (or more in case of >>> bigger objects) >>> b) change outlines from "stairs" to glued lines (what Joe suggested). >>> This would allow for even less "fragments" for each skyline. >> >> It's neat that you are generating such precise skylines, but can you >> show places where this makes an appreciable difference for texts? > > Well, it is again an issue of "incest tabu" where the details of the > combining skylines make best sense for combining _heterogenous_ > elements: for arranging text with text, you don't want to have things > get too closely or even interleaved. But having a single high letter > "interlock" with a note stem can improve the overall arrangement.
Exactly my point: you can fix the single letter case with a single bbox per glyph. Why do you need more accuracy than single box per glyph? -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
