On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:01 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanw...@gmail.com> writes: > >> 2012/3/1 Janek Warchoł <janek.lilyp...@gmail.com>: >> >>> 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? >> >> You could look into some heuristic that limits the number of boxes >> depending on their shapes, so it creates a single box for most glyphs. >> >> For example, you could take the box enclosing the glyph and compare >> its area with that of the union of the boxes, and revert to one box if >> the difference is less than X percent. > > Percentage of area differences sounds like a recipe for disaster. Once > one box gets large enough, it will eat every small box in its vicinity > because any single one will not make a large percentual difference.
Well, perhaps there is another method. I just want to point out that it is a waste to represent the extent of the letter 'n' with 10 boxes, and we should be able to do better. -- 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
