Hi Nick, On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Nick Payne <nick.pa...@internode.on.net> wrote:
[...] > > Thanks, that's very useful. I added three functions to your code which which > take just the slope as parameter and default to using either hyphen, en > dash, and em dash, to cater for different degrees of tightness of note > spacing: > [...] > I also tried two-em and three-em dashes (unicode values 0x2E3A and 0x2E3B, > see http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2E00.pdf), but they're not in the > emmentaler font; when I put them in a function the console spits out: > > Preprocessing graphical objects... > programming error: FT_Get_Glyph_Name () error: invalid argument > continuing, cross fingers > programming error: Glyph has no name, but font supports glyph naming. > Skipping glyph U+10002E3A, file > /usr/local/lilypond/usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf/emmentaler-18.otf > Unfortunately, I'm not sure at the moment how to get the function to work with those characters. However, if you're interested simply in drawing lines, then there will be greater flexibility with a line stencil, rather than em- and en-dashes and such. I've adapted the function to do just that (see attached). It allows customization of slope and the length of the guide-line. HTH, David
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