Re: Direction operators in event-function

2018-10-22 Thread Urs Liska
Am 21.10.2018 um 18:17 schrieb David Kastrup: David Kastrup writes: Urs Liska writes: What I would *like* to do is a function like propagate-direction = #(define-event-function (text)(markup?) #{ -\tweak direction #UP -( -\tweak direction #UP -\markup #text

Force text on line without using \textLengthOn

2018-10-22 Thread Urs Liska
Hi, I want to use TextScript.staff-padding to produce markup elements that are aligned to their baseline. In order to prevent the texts from moving vertically to avoid collisions I used \textLengthOn (or its spelled-out variant): \version "2.19.82" test = #(define-event-function (text)(mark

Re: Usage of ly:stencil-fonts ??

2018-10-22 Thread Torsten Hämmerle
Hi Harm, All these numbers are quite confusing at first glance. And at second and third glance, too. But they are nothing but conversion factors to switch units. And, unfortunately, LilyPond basically uses three concurrent units in parallel: - LilyPond units in staff-spaces - Pango units in mm -

Re: Usage of ly:stencil-fonts ??

2018-10-22 Thread Thomas Morley
Hi Torsten, I've created https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5430/ Am So., 21. Okt. 2018 um 21:33 Uhr schrieb Torsten Hämmerle : > > Thomas Morley-2 wrote > > I like to understand the numerical values. > > The pair (-0.443862992125984 . 1.09258582677165) seems to be the > > extent in Y