Re: Poor man's punctus divisionis

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden wrote:
> > this is out of style.  Why can't it simply use the staff-position property?
>
>
> I'm trying setting the staff-position of a new BarLine symbol, but
> without any effect.
>
> in Bar_line::compound_barline I have at the proper place:
>
>   else if (str == ".")
>     {
>       m = dot;
> //       m.translate_axis
> //      (robust_scm2double (me->get_property ("staff-position"), 0)
> //       * staff_space * 0.5, Y_AXIS);
>     }
>
> I've also tried adding staff-position property to BarLine in define-grobs.scm
>
>     (BarLine
>      . (
>         (break-align-symbol . staff-bar)
>         (staff-position . 0)
>         (glyph . "|")
>
> without any effect.
>
> What am I missing or doing wrong (OK, everything, but...)?

staff-symbol-referencers need to have the appropriate Y-offset-callback. 
Check out the definition of NoteHead for an examlpe.

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 Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen