Re: Gets vertical skylines from grob stencils (issue 5626052)

[David Kastrup]

Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:

> 2012/3/1 Janek Warchoł <address@hidden>:
>
>> From what i see, the skylines are now more precise than they need to
>> be - every glyph has a skyline of 10 or so boxes, even if it's a
>> single letter! (see attached)
>> I think the proper solution would be to:
>> a) set minimal "step" size to 0.2 staffspace (or more in case of
>> bigger objects)
>> b) change outlines from "stairs" to glued lines (what Joe suggested).
>> This would allow for even less "fragments" for each skyline.
>
> It's neat that you are generating such precise skylines, but can you
> show places where this makes an appreciable difference for texts?

Well, it is again an issue of "incest tabu" where the details of the
combining skylines make best sense for combining _heterogenous_
elements: for arranging text with text, you don't want to have things
get too closely or even interleaved.  But having a single high letter
"interlock" with a note stem can improve the overall arrangement.

-- 
David Kastrup