Excuse my top-posting, but is there any context for this message? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-12/msg00296.html is no help either. It *might* be helpful to be able to see the Message-ID and In-Reply-To for the postings there, but the list administrators seem more interested in displaying User-agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/0.0.0.151105 in which I have absolutely no interest.
On Sat 12 Dec 2015 at 13:17:52 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > Hi All, > > I have noticed this phenomenon also. Why would it be intentional I wonder? And > if so, why not exceed the lower staff line also? What would be the purpose in > exceeding the bounds? I don’t see it adding legibility or clarity, and indeed, > small offsets like this tend to fill the perceptual system with needless > detail, leading to overall loss of immediate clarity. > > So, I am very curious to know if this is supposed to be an intentional > engraving practice. > > Andrew > > On 12/12/2015, 10:43, "Urs Liska" <bug-lilypond-bounces+andrew.bernard= > gmail....@gnu.org on behalf of u...@openlilylib.org> wrote: > > This *may* be intended, which should be checked - if someone recalls any > discussion. > At least I recall speaking someone from a major publishing house about > how they created their own music font, and specifically made it do what > the OP reported. Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user