Re: Issue 579 in lilypond: ReheasalMarks are shifted to the right depending on the number of staves

[Andrew Hawryluk]

That's great!
"...the bug reporter hadn't realized this fine detail when he wanted
to change the alignment point"
Exactly. Once explained it makes sense. Thanks again!

Andrew

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Mats Bengtsson
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>  address@hidden wrote:
>  > Issue 579: ReheasalMarks are shifted to the right depending on the
>  > number of staves
>  > http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=579
>  >
>  > Comment #2 by v.villenave:
>  > Indeed. I had no idea that the anchor might change between the first
>  > and second staff
>  > (I'm not sure why the first TimeSignature has a different anchor from
>  > the others). We
>  > should probably document it better, but for now I'll just add your
>  > explanation as a
>  > wrokaround in the LSR.
>  Perhaps you missed the point: Since the rehearsal mark is typeset at the
>  score level, it's not tied to any specific stave and can therefore not be
>  aligned to an anchor point in a single stave. The strategy used in the
>  implementation
>  is to take the average position of the anchor points in all the stave.
>  The reason that the anchor point was different in the first stave in
>  this particular
>  example was that the bug reporter hadn't realized this fine detail when he
>  wanted to change the alignment point. So, it's clearly not a bug, but a lack
>  of documentation.
>
>  Don't add a new LSR item for this issue. I have updated the documentation
>  in GIT, in the example of sect. Text marks, and added a sentence of
>  explanation.
>
>    /Mats
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