Re: Altdefault breves in chords

[Edward Neeman]

Hi Torsten,

Thanks for your reply, and the detailed explanation! I can’t say I understand 
the problem very well, but I get that it’s difficult to solve... Too bad 
because for me it makes the alt default breves unusable without an easy 
workaround. Fortunately the other breve options work out fine.

Best,
Edward
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Dr. Edward Neeman
www.neemanpianoduo.com



> On 3 May 2018, at 6:53 pm, Torsten Hämmerle <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi Edward,
> 
> On the one hand, the altdefault breve notehead needs to align with
> accidentals, on the other hand it should overlap in collisition with other
> altdefault breve noteheads in a way that the two lines exactly match.
> 
> This is rather difficult, because the distance between the two lines even
> varies depending on the layout font size: for smaller layout sizes such as
> Emmentaler-14, the lines are moved a bit further apart.
> Therefore, half the notehead size does not mean half the distance between
> the lines, but a wee bit more.
> 
> Using horizontal skylines or glyph metrics may not represent the actual
> glyph outline closely enough to achieve a perfect automatic alignment under
> all circumstances.
> 
> Perhaps the problem could be solved in a future release, I just wanted to
> give you a feedback and an explanation.
> 
> I'll open up a tracker issue in any case.
> 
> All the best,
> Torsten
> 
> 
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