Re: more skyline ideas

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Joe Neeman escreveu:
> On 1/3/07, *Han-Wen Nienhuys* <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     Just a quick idea: how about adapting the skyline procedures to
>     also put crude outlines of beams and slurs in the staff outline?
>     With a bit of luck, we could use that to scrap the
>     outside_slur_callback.
> 
> 
> If we did a bezier -> bunch of straight lines conversion then we could
> certainly make skylines from the results. But in order to use the staff
> outlines to scrap outside_slur_callback, we would need to assume that
> all the outside-slur grobs belong outside the staff as well as outside
> the slur. This is certainly true for things like TextScript but is it
> true for all articulations?

No, but I think there is nothing that is always inside a beam, for example.
Furthermore, depending on the value of avoid-slur, we could also set
outside-staff-priority.

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