Re: Error in resolving number of staff lines

[Marc Hohl]

Am 22.06.2012 10:49, schrieb David Kastrup:
> Marc Hohl <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > You are only overriding line-positions.  While the bar line printer will
> > > see that this now contains a value and heeds it, this does not magically
> > > affect the (now ignored) line-count property.
> > Ah, I see, thanks for the explanation.
> > But why are the dots placed as if there were only four lines?
> > If the line number is still 5 and the routine in lily/bar-line.cc
> > works as expected, why are the dots placed correctly?
> Huh?  Because there is a lot of code for doing that?
>
>          {
>            std::vector<Real> linepos = Staff_symbol::line_positions (staff);
>            if (!linepos.empty ())
>              {
>                centre = Staff_symbol::line_span (staff).center ();
>
>                /*
>                  fold the staff into two at centre and find the first gap
>                  big enough to hold a dot and some space below and above
>                */
>
>                [lots and lots]
Oh – I worked with a printed copy of bar-line.cc dated 2012/03/17,
where these lines simply didn't exist. This explains *a lot* ;-)

Thanks,

Marc