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

[Nick Payne]

On 24/01/13 17:29, address@hidden wrote:
> 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


Thanks. That would be good if it could be done.

Nick