Re: Six problems

[Erik Sandberg]

On Friday 10 June 2005 21.55, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Erik Sandberg wrote:
> > >      1. In the first measure the dynamics "sfz" and "pp" for the first
> > >  two notes overlap.
> >
> > known bug
> >
> > >      2. The "sfz" and "pp" strings aren't aligned vertically.  That is,
> > >  the baseline for the "sfz" is lower than the baseline for the
> > >  "pp".  Is this a problem in the original font definition?
> >
> > it's standard behaviour; vertical position of text strings is taken
> > relative the staff.
>
> That doesn't explain it.  If the text strings had their baselines at a
> fixed position relative to the staff then the letters would align.  Do you
> mean instead that the bounding boxes are placed at a fixed distance from
> the staff?

Sorry, I was a bit unclear. When I said 'staff', I meant the staff plus its 
notes. So in other words, text is placed below (or above) the lowest(highest) 
note grob that occurs at the given moment, if it sticks out from the staff.

(of course there are other kinds of objects than notes, that also affect the 
placing of text)

Erik