Re: exact placement rules for volta brackets?

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Marc Hohl" <address@hidden>
To: "Lilypond-User" <address@hidden>; "Lily-Devel List" 
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Sent: Friday, August 31, 2012 9:55 AM
Subject: exact placement rules for volta brackets?


> Hello all,
>
> I am just about rewriting the bar line user interface and stumbled across 
> a
> serious problem: with my new approach, the valta brackets are displaced.
>
> For developing a fix, I need to know how this is properly done.
> Gould doesn't say much about the details, and this is the only reference
> I have.
>
> For the moment, the center of the volta hook is placed over the left
> edge of the thick bar line, see the attached picture.
> This looks a bit weird, I think.
>
> Any hints/references/improvements?
>
> Thanks in advvance,
>
> Marc

See the attached scan from Gould.  She appears to vary somewhat in 
placement, but I would think the image you included has the bracket too far 
left.

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Phil Holmes

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