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

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On 23 janv. 2013, at 20:51, Nick Payne <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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

I'm all for changing it - let me know if you need a patch to be proposed.

Cheers,
MS