Re: Me and Braille music again

[Mats Bengtsson]

I'd recommend to look at the support for figured bass or
chord names for some inspiration. It seems that you want
to typeset the Braille in a separate context which makes it
easy to place it above or below and existing Staff or whatever
other context.

   /Mats

Ralph Little wrote:
> Yippee!!!!
> I've got some spare time.
> So, I'm pretty well done doing a Braille font for Lily, that's no
> problem.
>
> How I've decided to tackle it is to design a new engraver which will
> "hang" the Braille text across the top of the current context items
> (e.g. Staff).
> I've studied a selection of existing engravers and, since Braille music
> is just a stream of Braille characters, I looked at the LyricText
> engraver to see how this can easily be achieved. However it contains
> lots of "ugh"s and some comment about creating space from thin air, so I
> wonder if that is dodgy territory. :( A simple hbox of text with a
> Braille font should suffice.
>
> Since everything is spaced and positioned ultimately by chaining grobs
> off the top, bottom and side of others, I'm not sure how to position a
> grob above *everything* else for the current Staff.
>
> If anybody has a clue about this or if some kind soul wants to help by
> producing a simple example of an engraver which would achieve this, I
> would be eternally grateful and I can get on with the mechanics of the
> Braille music translation itself.
>
> BTW, what's the significance of the "cheesy" names for things e.g. feta
> and parmesan.
> Since I'm looking for a cute name for my new font, how does Brie sound?
> :)
>
> Regards,
> Ralph
>
>
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