Re: Piano pedalling patch

[Chris Jackson]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:18:11AM +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 12:52:46AM +0100, Rune Zedeler wrote:
> > > Chris Jackson wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I've been hacking around with piano pedalling, to try to implement
> > > > bracketed pedals, and my patch is now ready to be tested.
> > > 
> > > And a bug: The horisontal line is too long - by a factor 72/72.27 I
> > > guess (problem with points vs. bigpoints)
> > 
> > Hmm - I see the bug.  Don't quite understand your explanation though -
> > could you be more detailed about what you think might be causing this? 
> 
> PostScript uses the convention that 1 inch = 72 points. TeX 
> uses the convention that 1 inch = 72.27, and lily too. 

The bug happens with a plain text-spanner as well - looks like an
existing problem. I wonder where the transformation should be applied -
maybe in the dashed-line function in ps.scm, or could there be other
types of line which are affected? 

-- 
chris