Re: [PATCHES] Re: Harp Pedals?

[Francisco Vila]

2008/8/29 Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden>:
> Am Freitag, 29. August 2008 schrieb Carl D. Sorensen:
>> >Some tests with inkscape show me that an ellipse
>> > (depending on the aspect ratio of the rectangle) could be a little too
>> > 'tall', but if the half-axes simply add a fixed amount in x and y to
>> > the width and height of the rectangle, it would leave a more
>> > controllable space in between (maybe it also would be faster to
>> > calculate)
> [...]
>> I think that Reinhold's idea of x-padding and y-padding is a good idea,
>> because it allows the user to change the aspect ratio of the ellipse if the
>> automatically generated one is not good.  I will implement that idea by
>> tomorrow, if Reinhold has already done so.
>
> I've already implemented that last saturday with commit
> d462d4c7c356124edd1c0f1ef6037335669f30b5
> Looking at the harp diagrams, I really did not like the ellipse, which was too
> high for my tast, but not wide enough,,, With different padding in x- and
> y-direction it looks okay now.

That's what I meant: equal aspect ratios does not seem to be the goal,
but an optical robustness valid for high- and low- resolutions.
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