Re: Finger-flag collision

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On 11 mai 2012, at 16:39, Trevor Daniels wrote:

> 
> address@hidden Friday, May 11, 2012 3:22 PM
> 
> 
>> On 11 mai 2012, at 16:13, David Kastrup wrote:
>> 
>>> Mike Solomon <address@hidden> writes:
>>> 
>>>>> I'm not top posting.
>>>> 
>>>> \relative c' {
>>>> \set fingeringOrientations = #'(right)
>>>> <a-5 c-3>8
>>>> }
>>>> 
>>>> Results in flag-on-number and number-on-number collisions.
>>> 
>>> Regression?
>>> 
>> 
>> Same result in 2.14.2 and 2.15.35.
>> 
>> Haven't tested in 2.12.
>> 
>> I'm not sure if it's a regression, but it's ugly :(
> 
> Side-fingering has always (at least since 2.12) been too close in
> notes a third apart; that's why I chose to show how to reduce the
> font-size in the LM (see towards the bottom of
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/learning/within_002dstaff-objects
>    )
> I've attached a cutting from the 2.12 LM pdf, which is just
> as bad as Mike's.  So no regression.
> 
> Not sure about the flag.  The flag shape and stem length were
> changed some time ago; maybe this was a contributing factor.

There isn't any code in place that'd implement flag-fingering collision 
avoidance.  It wouldn't be too much work - if a tracker item is opened, I'll 
try to get around to it over the summer, but I wanted to touch base first to 
make sure that it hadn't already been reported/documented.

Cheers,
MS