Re: If incipit has soprano clef, its staves are not aligned with main score

[David Kastrup]

Keith OHara <address@hidden> writes:

> Keith OHara <k-ohara5a5a <at> oco.net> writes:
>> 
>> The bug report remains, though, that someone expected a (generalized)
>> InstrumentName to be aligned on its baseline, whereas it is centered.
>> 
>
> The primary use of InstrumentName is to print the instrument name, and
> we would rather have the text centered than have its baseline
> centered.

Visually, you'd rather want to center not on the "true" center, but on
something like half the x-height above the baseline: one would not want
different baselines for "Daisy" and "Joe".  There is a complication that
with all-caps word, the x-height is not the same: one centers "Violin"
at a different height than "VIOLIN".

> (Maybe another reason to shift the baseline to the center of the
> ex-height?)

Hey, I just wrote an entire paragraph unnecessarily.

> So I think the behavior is what we want overall, but maybe we should
> put one of the Y-extent overrides in the examples that put an incipit
> in the Instrument Name.  I suggest this be a documentation request;
> any project member please open an item if you agree, complain if
> not. I'll open a doc suggestion in a few days if my opinion remains
> the same.

I am not overly enthused about downing extents for the purpose of
getting baselines heeded.  It's not really intuitive.

-- 
David Kastrup