Re: staccato dots and slurs in second voice

[David Nalesnik]

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 5:50 PM, David Nalesnik <address@hidden> wrote:

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 2:15 PM, David Nalesnik <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Kieren,

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi David,

> This situation with staccato dots is more complex, however.  Gould says: "Staccato dots and wedges by themselves look best centred on a stem ... although many editions do centre them on the notehead" (118).

Good point.
Perhaps it could/should be a parameter?

Certainly.  I've been thinking about this situation.  The difficulty is that the X-offset of the staccato dot (Script) is set independently of the ScriptColumn, of which it has no knowledge (i.e., a pointer).  This makes "position yourself this way unless there are simultaneous articulations" impossible at the moment.

Looks like it's not a problem giving a Script a pointer to a ScriptColumn grob.  Will investigate if I can modify the X-offset callback for Script to deal with the staccato situation.

It's definitely possible!  Using a pointer to a ScriptColumn, the X-offset callback for Script can be modified to (1) center staccatos over the stem if no other articulations are present; (2) center them over the note head if multiple articulations are present.  I'll go over this some more, and if all goes well I should have a patch up for discussion.

Best,

David