Re: Positioning of "8" under clef symbol in G_8 clef

[Nick Payne]

On 23/01/13 21:34, Colin Hall wrote:
> Phil Holmes writes:
>
> > "Nick Payne" <address@hidden> wrote in message
> > news:address@hidden
> > > The default positioning of the small "8" under the clef symbol when
> > > using the treble_8 or G_8 clef is too far to the right. It looks better
> > > when the X-offset is about 0.7 staff units:
> > >
> > > %============
> > > \version "2.17.10"
> > >
> > > \relative c'{
> > >    \clef "G_8"
> > >    \override Staff.OctavateEight.X-offset = #0.7
> > >    c d e f
> > > }
> > > %============
> > >
> > > Nick
> >
> > I'd guess that this is because the centre lines of the 8 and clef line up.
> > Do you have examples supporting your view?
> Nick Payne posted to the lilypond-user thread here:
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2013-01/msg00927.html
>
> commenting that there isn't a single value for X-offset that works for
> all ottavations.
Here are a couple of scanned examples of clefs from commercial guitar 
scores, showing the 8 centred under the loop of the clef, and a couple 
of pngs showing Lilyponds default output and the output with the 
X-offset hard coded to 0.7, which better matches the alignment in the 
commercial scores.

Nick

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