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Re: link to Kievan Notes page
From: |
Juergen Reuter |
Subject: |
Re: link to Kievan Notes page |
Date: |
Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:47:08 +0100 (CET) |
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
- the length of 8th note stems varies between 2 and 2.5 staff space.
What's the reasoning behind this?
As far as I understand, it is the same idea behind it as for custodes and
mensural flags: for notes that are on stafflines, you have a different
stem/flare length than for notes between stafflines.
See, e.g. in custos.cc:
...
if (adjust)
font_char += (((pos ^ sz) & 0x1) == 0) ? "1" : "0";
...
or in stem.cc:
...
/* Mensural notation: For notes on staff lines, use different
flags than for notes between staff lines. The idea is that
flags are always vertically aligned with the staff lines,
regardless if the note head is on a staff line or between two
staff lines. In other words, the inner end of a flag always
touches a staff line.
*/
...
I am only wondering why this adjustment for 8th note stems is applied for
downward stems only, but not for upward stems. I guess, it should be
applied to both.
Greetings,
Juergen