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Re: LSR eyeglasses snippet
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Thomas Morley |
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Re: LSR eyeglasses snippet |
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Tue, 11 Aug 2015 23:08:23 +0200 |
2015-08-11 15:57 GMT+02:00 Phil Holmes <address@hidden>:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
> To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 2:39 PM
> Subject: Re: LSR eyeglasses snippet
>
>
>> Phil Holmes <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> I don't understand why this snippet is present: can anyone explain?
>>>
>>> http://lsr.di.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=982
>>
>>
>> It was implemented in LilyPond's core in 2.13.0 with
>>
>> commit 243b15925ff3ef8b0384ffd0a6ce6664ad19da99
>> Author: Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri Jan 30 21:30:24 2009 +0100
>>
>> Implement \eyeglasses as markup command
>>
>> -) implement \eyeglasses as markup command, using the postscript stored
>> in the eyeglassesps variable
>> -) Use this markup command in musicxml2ly, too
>> -) Add regtest for \eyeglasses (in a \markup and as a markup attached
>> to
>> a note)
>> -) Remove the eyeglasses example from the postscript command and
>> replace it by two rings (the stereo symbol) written in postscript
>>
>> and presumably the snippet predates this?
>>
>> --
>> David Kastrup
>
>
>
> No - it postdates it considerably. It would seem that it re-implements the
> \eyeglasses command, but with absolute rather than relative co-ordinates. I
> don't understand why this might be beneficial.
>
> --
> Phil Holmes
The difference between the two is visible, when you let draw a box
around both, see attachment.
I've no clue about the benefit either, though.
Maybe Pierre can say something about it since he did the last LSR-update.
cc-ed him.
Cheers,
Harm
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