Re: Staccato alignment on stem side

[Colin Hall]

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 10:34:38AM +0200, Urs Liska wrote:
> Am 16.05.2012 16:22, schrieb David Nalesnik:
> >On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Urs Liska
> ><address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>
> >wrote:
> >
> >    Am 16.05.2012 10:50, schrieb Colin Hall:
> >
> >        Urs Liska<lilyliska<at> googlemail.com
> >        <http://googlemail.com>>  writes:
> >
> >            The following example shows that staccato points are
> >            aligned differently
> >            from other articulations when on the stem side.
> >
> >        Thanks, Urs. I reproduced this on 2.12.3 and 2.15.38 so I have
> >        created a tracker
> >        here:
> >
> >        http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2535
> >
> To sum up the discussion:

> Am I right that:
> - staccato dots are intendedly aligned more towards the stem by
>   default when on the stem side
> - other articulations aren't
> - if there happens to be staccato and other articulations present at
>   the same time (when on the stem side) you have an inconsistency.
> - This inconsistency isn't a bug

That is a good summary. You, David, Phil and Elaine Gould are in
agreement on how this should be typeset and there have been no
comments to the contrary.

> So the issue report has to be either
> - marked as invalid or
> - changed to a feature request to incorporate David's workaround

I've changed the classification to make it a feature request.

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2535

Thanks to David, Urs and Phil for sorting this out.

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall