Re: Makes sure that ledger lines do not overlap with accidentals. (issue 4898060)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Mike Solomon <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> Which is a trivial change to engravers-init.ly.  I'll post a patch later 
>>> today unless anyone sees a better alternative.
>>
>> this will generate square endings on the ledgers.
>
> True.
> Question - is there any way to take a glyph from the feta font and make it 
> white thru pango?  If so, you could increase the size of the white glyph by a 
> factor, set the accidental against it, and then the ledger line changes would 
> follow the contour of the accidental.

I think the whole approach of whiting is flawed: what if the
accidental covers a ledger only halfway? The ledgers would look like

a ***
a ***
*****
*****

(a  = acc, * = ledger)


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