Am Montag, 31. März 2008 schrieb till Rettig:
Hi,
could somebody explain me how ledger-line-thickness behaves? The IR
states
that it should be a pair:
"ledger-line-thickness (pair of numbers)
The thickness of ledger lines. It is the sum of 2 numbers: The first
is
the factor for line thickness, and the second for staff space. Both
contributions are added. "
But I cannot get the staff space bigger (the second number), instead the
first number influences the thickness of the ledger line a bit, the
second
quite much, that is it becomes so heavy that the spaces almost
disappear.
Yes, because they use different units:
-) The first one is a multiplier for the default thickness (quite small, ~
staff-space/10 )
-) The second one is an explicit width (in staff spaces, i.e. the default
distance between two staff lines or ledger lines)
The final distance is then:
( thickness * line-thickness * #1 ) + #2
Since the default thickness is quite small, of course the first number
influences the width only a little bit, while the second (measured in
different units!) increases it a lot.
Actually, the following two settings produce roughly the same (i.e. ledger
lines so thick that they touch each other:
\override StaffSymbol #'ledger-line-thickness = #'( 10 . 0 )
\override StaffSymbol #'ledger-line-thickness = #'( 0 . 1 )
And, yes, even Han-Wen agrees that this is confusing. See his comment in
lily/staff-symbol.cc:
/*
For raggedright without ragged staves, simply set width to the
linewidth.
(ok -- lousy UI, since width is in staff spaces)
--hwn.
*/
the second
quite much, that is it becomes so heavy that the spaces almost
disappear.
Please compare the example:
Things work as expected: The default line width is quite small and the
first
number is a multiplier for the default line width. The second one gives an
additional width in staff space (i.e. the distance between each of the
five
lines of a standard staff).
\override StaffSymbol #' ledger-line-thickness = #' ( 1 . .1 )
This uses the default line width + 1/10 of the staff space = 1/5 staff
space
\override StaffSymbol #' ledger-line-thickness = #' ( .1 . 1 )
This decreases the line with to 1/10 of its default (1/100 staff space!),
but
adds a full staff space (=distance between two ledger lines!), so of
course
all ledger lines touch each other.
Cheers,
Reinhold
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