Re: Issue 1266 in lilypond: Dots in chords can not be moved

[lilypond]

Comment #4 on issue 1266 by address@hidden: Dots in chords can not be  
moved
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1266

Git says that "extremal_head_" first appeared in

  commit f2a58a07b17170c437268cc076c89ba0f33b13a2
  Date:   Tue Jan 6 14:50:35 2004 +0000
    * lily/dot-column.cc (dot_config_badness): new function:
    select the best scoring dot configuration: dots should go close to
    the note heads, but be shifted up or down according to conventions.

The patch looks reasonable.  It does move the dot on a lone rest (image  
from dots.ly regression test).  This problem is not so bad considering that  
Lilypond currently gets stem-down dotted chords wrong. (The tie and  
overrides in the example above are not required to see the bug.)

Maybe Justin can run the regression suite on his patch and tweak as  
required, and/or upload it to codereview.appspot.com, or else be patient  
enough for someone else to help with these things.

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