Re: A couple house-style adaptment questions

[Rodolfo Zitellini]

I am looking a bit on the bracketed-accidental issue (which could be
my only conditio sine qua non with my publisher).
It seems that the parenthesis are hard-coded in accidental.cc (line 35
and 37, accidentals.leftparen and accidentals.rightparen). Would it be
possible to add an option to select parenthesis/bracket and change the
glyph? or in alternative add a callback to I can hook a custom bracket
stencil? what do you think?
Thanks,
Rodolfo

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Rodolfo Zitellini <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have to prepare a book to follow the house style of my publisher,
> and I'm struggling a bit with the following things:
>
> 1) Aligned BassFigures ABOVE the staff.
> The publisher wants them all above. I include the figures to my Staff
> context and set \bassFigureStaffAlignmentUp: it works, but each number
> gets it's vertical position from the note it hase above, with the
> result that the figures are not uniformly aligned. Is there a way to
> aligne them to the same baseline? It would be the same as when you put
> them in the FiguredBass context under the staff (tried a FiguredBass
> context but it seems it can be placed only under the staff and not
> above).
>
> 2) Figured bass font.
> The publisher asked me to use the same font they use for all the texts
> for the figured bass (a variation of Garamond). I did something like
> \override BassFigure #'font-name = #"Garamond Premier Pro"
> and it works well, except that all the alterations are too big for the
> tiny numbers in Garamond. Is there a way to scale just the alteration
> glyphs?
>
> 3) Bracketed cautionary accidentals.
> The house style calls for brackets and not parenthesis. Is there a way
> to change this? I already made my bracket stencil for ParenthesesItem,
> but I cannot find a way to change this in AccidentalCautionary.
>
> Thanks!
> Rodolfo