Re: Replacement for backend function bezier-sandwich

[mike]

On 2012-09-17 05:01, ornello wrote:
> James wrote
> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=commitdiff;h=35725a573e47be7c02c51964641ea534fb88be6b
> >
> > Does this help?
> >
> > james
>
> Hmm... I see that in lookup.cc the call to the backend function
> bezier-sandwich has been replaced by native PS commands. I don't find 
> a
> bezier drawing callback function that is called in the backend. I 
> have
> written my own HTML backend, and I need to react to bezier_sandwich 
> calls
> when drawing slurs and ties. So my question is: How do I draw slurs 
> and ties
> in backends that are not PS (e.g. SVG, socket, HTML, ...)?
>
> Dominik

Dear Dominik,

They are actually commands to the path stencil - they look like native 
PS commands because they use the same lingo.  If your backend implements 
the path stencil, LilyPond should do the rest of the work for you, 
outputting slurs and ties as paths instead of bezier sandwiches.

Cheers,
MS