Re: Does the center of the staff need to be zero?

[Kevin Dalley]

Thanks.  I'll post my patch shortly.

Thanks for the comments on my previous patch.  I appreciate the
difficulty to merging in patches.  If you have suggestions for a
different place to put the changes, I'm quite willing to give it a
try. 

"Han-Wen Nienhuys" <address@hidden> writes:

> As far as I can see there is no strict need, fot it to be zero, so if
> you have a sensible patch to change it, go ahead and post it.
>
>
> BTW I know that you have an interesting patch for Lily to make line
> configurations more flexible. I'll try to review it this week.
>
> regards,
>
> Han-Wen
>
>
> 2007/3/15, Kevin Dalley <address@hidden>:
>> In LilyPond, using line-positions, the center is required to be at 0,
>> otherwise there are problems with the created score.  There are a
>> couple of possibilities.
>>
>> One is to make the documentations more clear that staffs must be
>> centered at 0.
>>
>> The other possibility is to modify LilyPond to take staffs which are
>> not centered at 0.
>>
>> I notice 2 areas which need to be modified.  I have a small patch for
>> bar-line.cc, which otherwise draws the bar line of the correct size,
>> but centered around 0 rather than centered around the real center.
>>
>> Ledger lines need some work as well, though there are problems even if
>> the staff is centered, particularly if the top and bottom lines are on
>> even positions.
>>
>> Should I post my patch for bar lines for staffs which are not centered
>> at 0?
>
>
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