Re: More improvements to PostScript backend

2006-04-03 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
David Feuer wrote: In my nonexistent free time I've done some more work. I'd really like to do something about the compulsive gsave x y translate 0 0 moveto grestore wrapping that everything gets. Could someone give me an idea of what could get stuffed into placebox? Is there actually some kin

Re: More improvements to PostScript backend

2006-04-02 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
David Feuer schreef: of what could get stuffed into placebox? Is there actually some kind of global graphics state that we need to maintain as a default? It I think that color might be, but I'm not sure. should I include patches inline or attach them? This time I did both. The attached on

Re: More improvements to PostScript backend

2006-04-01 Thread David Feuer
When might I expect feedback on the new patch? David Feuer ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: More improvements to PostScript backend

2006-04-01 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
David Feuer schreef: Would it be possible to put mark_URI wherever pdfmark is defined? That way, it won't be in the output unless it's actually used. no. pdfmark is a routine that GS/Acrobat distiller provides to create URLs in the PDF output. It's defined in case the PS interpreter (say, one

Re: More improvements to PostScript backend

2006-04-01 Thread David Feuer
Grr I forgot to delete the euclidean_length procedure from music-drawing-routines.ps. It is no longer used. David ___ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel

Re: More improvements to PostScript backend

2006-04-01 Thread David Feuer
Would it be possible to put mark_URI wherever pdfmark is defined? That way, it won't be in the output unless it's actually used. Could someone give me a clue about stencils and grobs? My vague general impression is that it would probably be a big win for code maintenance, output quality, and out

Re: More improvements to PostScript backend

2006-04-01 Thread David Feuer
> +% it's possible to eliminate the coordinate variables by doing [ /Rect [ 7 3 > +% roll It is, however, kind of ugly. Another possibility, probably better, > is > +% to put the [ and ] into the other side, so this procedure will take an > array. > +% Yet another is to make pdfmark take its coo

More improvements to PostScript backend

2006-04-01 Thread David Feuer
In my nonexistent free time I've done some more work. I'd really like to do something about the compulsive gsave x y translate 0 0 moveto grestore wrapping that everything gets. Could someone give me an idea of what could get stuffed into placebox? Is there actually some kind of global graphics