Re: improving the transition between full-length and shortenedstems. (issue4210051)

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/3/1 Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>
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> Janek Warchoł wrote Monday, February 28, 2011 1:02 PM
>
>> 2011/2/28 Trevor Daniels <address@hidden>
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>>> This commit causes many changes to the reg tests due to the small
>>> increase in some of the stems that protrude beyond the staff.
>>> Virtually all of the changes look good, but one struck me as undesirable.
>>>
>>> It is in cue-clef-begin-of-score.ly. Here the stems on the d full-size
>>> notes seem undesirably lengthened. Is the clef change being
>>> ignored here?
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>> I don't have access to my main machine so i cannot see new output for myself,
>> but i can say that in this regtest all four notes should have longer stems 
>> now.
>> In general, stems of the notes that are on the middle line will be
>> longer now and it is desired behaviour.
>
> Yes, they are longer, but the stems on the full-size notes look too long
> in this context to my eye.
>
> I've attached the output from 2.13.52.

In my opinion it is ok.
While i agree that in this particular example the stems may look
*slightly* better if they were a bit shorter, i suppose that
implementing this (i.e. making stem length depend on a broader context
than their position on the staff) would require too much work; i also
don't see by what criteria this could be judged. Since vast majority
of cases look better with this patch, and this problem isn't serious
imo, i suggest leaving it alone.

cheers,
Janek

PS my first patch is now in an official LilyPond release! Hooray!