Re: Alignment issues of Time signature above the staff

[Kevin Barry]

Hi Chen,

1. I was able to mostly solve this - you can now click on the time
signatures (but it doesn't seem to work for all of them - I don't know
why).
2. This should work now
3. This is done using callbacks (it's a hacky solution that brings
back the time signature stencil for just that purpose since that is
the only time we want it to occupy space throughout the score)
4. This might be doable in the engraver, but I'm not sure how (without
making it hard to change), so I implemented it as a callback (that
means combining callbacks if you both want to center over the barline
and create extra space for the time signature at the end of a line - I
have hopefully explained this in the comments so it's clear how to set
it up the way you might want)

File is attached.

Kevin

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 05:08, Leo Chen <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Thank you so much for all the effort you've put into this!
> I think this has already become useable but I still have a few suggestions:
>
> 1. Due to the nature of text scripts, they can't be clicked on and directed 
> to the code in Frescobaldi, this may make debugging the score a bit more 
> difficult, but it won't affect the outcome once the score is finished, so it 
> shouldn't be a big problem.
>
> 2. Compound time signatures are now automatically formatted into normal time 
> signatures (see attachment) I think this can be fixed relatively easily by 
> reformatting the markup.
>
> 3. It would be great if extra space can be arranged for the time signature 
> before the line break instead of aligning it to the left side of the last bar.
>
> 4. This is not a personal request, however, some people may prefer aligning 
> the time signature to the centre instead of the right side of the barline 
> like the example in the original snippet. 
> http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Snippet?id=272 I wonder how hard this can be 
> implemented into this custom engraver.
>
> Overall, I think this is a massive improvement from the last version and I 
> greatly appreciate your help.
>
> Best,
> Leo

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