Re: New articulation character for half-open hi-hats?

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> Perhaps I'm wrong, and the whole thing is a non-issue: ghostscript
>> can compute the exact bounding box of an EPS file, AFAIK, taking
>> care of the real dimensions of all glyphs (relying on the outlines
>> instead of the metrics).
> 
> I don't know what ghostscript can do, but even if it cannot compute
> the bounding box by considering the real glyph dimensions, this
> functionality could be simulated by enlarging the boundary of the
> EPS file by a suitable "safety" margin and then calling pnmcrop
> after the EPS file has been converted into an image.

Yes, this sounds like a sensible solution to avoid issues with
GhostScript.


    Werner