Re: Gets vertical skylines from grob stencils (issue 5626052)

[Keith OHara]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:43:03 -0700, <address@hidden> wrote:

> Have you tried setting TupletNumber's priority to be smaller than
> TupletBracket? It results TupletNumber moving twice as far as it should

That is a problem with the simple code.
What is the desired output, though, if someone specifically asks for 
TupletNumbers to be placed before TupletBrackets ?

> It would also be possible for some grob to insert itself between the
> TupletBracket and the TupletNumber, which isn't particularly nice
> either.

But if a user over-rode the priorities so that another object has priority 
between that of the Bracket and the Number, maybe he did think that would be 
nice.

> So I think some form of "rider" functionality is necessary. I do
> it a little differently in my branch, which even allows the TupletNumber
> to affect the position of the TupletBracket.

That looks reasonably simple.  And allowing space for the 'rider' while placing 
the parent is the right thing to do.

(I had /thought/ setting the child's outside-staff-priority to #f would push 
outside-staff items away from where the child was, before getting moved with 
the parent.  So I suggested just inheriting the priority of the parent.)