On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 9:35 AM, David Nalesnik <david.nales...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Rutger Hofman <rut...@cs.vu.nl> wrote: >> Thanks for all the help! First I post some rationale, then my real question, >> which is targeted at the developers I guess. >> >> The behaviour I am after is a thing I really do want: it is visually >> confusing if the 'a tempo' comes halfway the 'poco rit.)' when it is clearly >> meant to be after it. >> >> I am afraid that solutions involving staff-padding are not general enough; >> if I try to move the \markup{a tempo} in my example to the beginning of its >> bar, there is no value for right.text padding or staff-padding that lets it >> be both visible and at the same vertical position. And even then I am unsure >> if it will work for all 14 instrument parts (the tempo indications are >> needed in all), the skyline can be wildly different. > > I'm having difficulty understanding exactly what it is that you want > or why the solutions presented are insufficient. Is it possible to > provide some sort of mockup--if if hand-drawn--to show exactly how > you'd like this to look? > >> OK... Now for the real question. >> >> I am really unenlightened why the right.text (or for that matter, both >> left.text and right.text if the padding is chosen sufficiently large) >> disappears for largish values of padding. After all, the padding is intended >> to stretch outside the texts, isn't that correct? >> >> For a quick attempt to see if things crash or whatever if this test is >> disabled, I cloned git and built on my Ubuntu, verified quickly that the >> unmodified install works, then commented out that test (line 329 in >> lily/line-spanner.cc) and ran again. Lo and behold, everything looks OK in >> my first quick tests. >> >> I am not familiar with Lilypond internals, so this raises my question: what >> is this test for? What problems does it guard against? Should it only hold >> for other spanners than text spanners? Or for right-broken text spanners? >> Etc. Or is it just a bug/feature silently living on from the past? > > When I fiddled around this a few days ago, the dashed line would > disappear when doing this. Modifying the code to show the dashed line > again (another condition) shows the line superimposed on the right > text. > > I can't investigate this further/pass along my test code for you to > investigate, b/c unfortunately I'm having a file permissions disaster > on my Win10 system. > > David
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