On 5/24/17 7:49 AM, "David Nalesnik" <david.nales...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Kieren MacMillan ><kieren_macmil...@sympatico.ca> wrote: >> Hi David, >> >>> I would say so. However, the situation is more complicated: >> >> #ugh #IsntItAlways >> >>> [Simon:] maybe a context property to turn off alignment of dotted >>>rests would be useful? >> >> That sounds like it might work! >> > > I agree with the idea of a context property, but it would switch >between the current default (alignment by Staff always) and a new >default which respects Gould's recommendations, which apply to more >than rests. An alignment by voice would also be used if the dotted >quarter rest in Kieren's image were replaced by a dotted note or >notes. Additionally, by Gould's recommendation, the dots should align >in cases where the voices have single notes (as in my counterexample >above). This would not be a simple change. The engraver creates a dot column; the dot column has only a y location for each dot. The x location is handled by the collision resolution system. Furthermore, the current approach (put the engraver in either the Voice or Staff context) can't be switched at a given moment in time, IIUC. Perhaps we move the dot column engraver to the Voice context, and then have a Staff context property something like AlignAllDotColumns. I don't know such a property would be implemented, but it seems to have the appropriate flexibility to allow us to set the behavior at any time. Thanks, Carl _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
