Re: new bar-lines / issue 1320

[Marc Hohl]

Am 04.06.2012 09:14, schrieb Janek Warchoł:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Thomas Morley
> <address@hidden>  wrote:
> > together with Marc Hohl I was working on Issue 1320 for a couple of weeks.
> > Now we have a first working version using a new approach to design BarLines:
> wow!  Looks very impressive!
>
> > Please note, there was need to change some glyphs:
> > "*" - dotted-bar-line
> Frankly, it always confuses me when i have to code a thick line using
> "." - it's very unintuitive.  What about changing this to some other
> character?  Maybe uppercase i?  It looks "thicker" - unless you use a
> sans-serif font...
+1

I thought about uppercase I, too. "|I" looks not too bad.
> > But now we have to make a decision about further development:
> > We played around with the idea to replace all relevant parts of
> > bar-line.cc and span-bar.cc with scheme-code.
> > Would this be suitable?
> I'm not knowledgeable enough to answer this question.
>
> > All other observations, hints and suggestions are highly apreciated!
> Is this code supposed to work with 2.15.36?  I get some warnings:
>
> warning: cannot find property type-check for `startRepeatType'
> (translation-type?).  perhaps a typing error?
> warning: doing assignment anyway
> warning: cannot find property type-check for `endRepeatType'
> (translation-type?).  perhaps a typing error?
> warning: doing assignment anyway
>
> looks like something related to http://codereview.appspot.com/6210049,
> which was created after 2.15.36.
Yes, this was preliminary work for exactly this purpose, so you need
a newer version.

Regards,

Marc
> cheers,
> Janek
>
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