Re: Adds tick mark to scripts (issue 6568055)

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Janek Warchoł" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: Adds tick mark to scripts (issue 6568055)


> Hmm.
> My answer to "how would we place the glyph at the correct vertical
> position, above the barline?" is: i suppose that we're going to create
> a \tickBreathe command; if so, i guess that defining it in this manner
> tickBreathe = {
>  \override BreathingSign #'outside-staff-priority = something
>  \override BreathingSign #'staff-padding = something
>  \override BreathingSign #'stencil = #(...)
>  \breathe
> }
> should result in "tick breathe" appearing where we want it (i.e. i
> hope that outside-staff-priority will result in placing this object
> outside of the staff, and staff-padding will determine how far would
> that be).
>
> cheers,
> Janek

Well, in the current version of the NR, the guidance for changing the breath 
sign is:
\override BreathingSign #'text = \markup {\musicglyph 
#"scripts.caesura.straight"}

No padding or anything else there.  This is what I thought it best to 
replicate.  I am OK with providing documentation that shows how to move the 
tick sign away from the top of the stave.  I'm just not OK with its default 
being halfway across the staff line.  That's plain ugly.  I've designed the 
glyph to be used as a tick for a breath mark.  No-one has cried out for a 
similar sign for any other purpose.  Let's keep the baseline in the obvious 
place - at the bottom of the glyph.  If you want one elsewhere, please add 
another glyph.


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Phil Holmes