Re: collision between markups and music

[Erik Sandberg]

On Sunday 20 February 2005 18.12, address@hidden wrote:
> Selon Erik Sandberg <address@hidden>:
> > On Saturday 19 February 2005 16.24, Nicolas Sceaux wrote:
> > It seems that the "" in the markup is ignored (or at least, it doesn't
> > affect the bounding box of the markup). If you change it to " ", it works
> > as you would expect.
> >
> > IMHO, this hack shouldn't work in an ideal lilypond; bounding box
> > calculations
> > should be based on occurence of non-white pixels. Why don't you use
> > padding instead?
>
> Thank you for your answer.
> I don't use padding because what I want is horizontal shifting. I was once
> told that, unless I use the extra-offset property, I would not have to
> worry about collisions. (btw, is this statement about extra-offset still
> true?) 

Yes, by definition extra-offset moves the objects after the collision 
detection process, it's just like a post-processing hack.

And when it comes to collisions: there are many known bugs related to 
collision of text markup, so I'm afraid you always have to worry about that, 
more or less.

Erik