Re: Key cancellation, position bug

[Thomas Morley]

2018-04-23 20:51 GMT+02:00 Torsten Hämmerle <address@hidden>:
> foxfanfare wrote
>> Is it "tweakable" until a fix comes around?

> There is some kind of "kerning" possibility by using the padding-pairs
> property, but event this is useless in our case because all signs are
> naturals, but we need different kerning between natural and natural
> depending on their spatial arrangement.
>
> All the rest is pretty much hard-wired in C, there's even a special
> exception applying extra padding to natural signs, but it does not consider
> the individual vertical distance between the glyphs.
>
> Maybe Harm has a diabolic scheme tweak in his fist-aid collection, but in
> this case, I doubt it...

Hi,

I played a little with 'padding-pairs.
Obviously the execption to add 0.3 padding in
key-signature-interface.cc only applies if 'padding-pairs is unset.

Below is limited to flat-cancellation:

\version "2.19.81"

foo =
  \override Staff.KeyCancellation.padding-pairs =
    #(lambda (grob)
      (let* ((alteration-alist (ly:grob-property grob 'alteration-alist)))
    ;; limited to flat-cancellation
    (if (every negative? (map cdr alteration-alist))
        '((("accidentals.natural" . "accidentals.natural") . 0.2))
        '())))

\layout {
  \foo
}

 <<
   { \key aes \major s1  \key c \major s }
   { \key e \major s1  \key c \major s }
 >>

For flat-cancellation:
The result is an even spacing of every natural. I'd call it a slight
improvement, but far from optimal.
The gap between first/second natural feels too wide and between
second/third too tight.
Sharp-cancellation is unchanged.

Nothing else in my black-box.

Cheers,
  Harm