[PATCH] Re: horizontally centering denominator in compound time signatures

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Sonntag, 30. November 2008 22:52:45 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:
> So, basically, there are two solutions:
> 1) Change stack-stencil-line to use the whole extents of the stencil (i.e.
> make it work correctly with stencils where the left edge is not at 0.
> 2) Change center-column to translate the stencil so that 0 lies at the left
> edge.
>
> Thinking about it, I suppose that 1) is the better solution. The only
> reason I see against it is to be able to let a stencil print something
> beyond its left edge. But then, a stencil can always print something beyond
> its extents, so there is no reason to special-case stack-stencil-line. It
> would even make sense to fix this for stencils where the left edge of the
> extent starts at a positive value. Those stencils get translated too much.
>
> What do you think is the correct solution?

I tried out both: 
If I only implement 1), then center-column markups that are not inside a line, 
but rather on their own, are still wrongly aligned (e.g. the first time 
signature in my examples). So 2) is definitely needed to fix this issue.

I've now implemented both:
http://codereview.appspot.com/8687

Comments please!

Cheers,
Reinhold
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