Re: lilypond-user Digest, Vol 119, Issue 90

[Thomas Morley]

2012/10/27 David Nalesnik <address@hidden>:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Thomas Morley
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>> Also: rather than simply translating the dashed-line stencil command,
>>> it might be nice to ensure that you can't get that ugly dot at the end
>>> of the line or having it end with a space.when you haven't guessed the
>>> right on/off combination,
>>
>> Well, perhaps I'm lazy, but I'd let it to the user finding appropriate 
>> values.
>
> Really :(   I have terrible memories of making scores with Finale.
> According to the screen, the line ending would be perfect.  On the
> printout, there would be that snipped-off line.

Let me sleep a night over it, perhaps I think different tomorrow.

>
>>
>> Currently the TextSpanner uses 'dashed-line as a style-property.
>> If I force strange 'dash-period-'dash-fraction-values the out put will
>> be bad, too:
>>
>> \relative c'' {
>>         \override TextSpanner #'style = #'dashed-line
>>   \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details left text) =
>>     \markup { \draw-line #'(0 . 1) }
>>   \override TextSpanner #'(bound-details right text) =
>>     \markup { \draw-line #'(0 . 1) }
>>
>>   \override TextSpanner #'dash-period = #8
>>   \override TextSpanner #'dash-fraction = #0.5
>>
>>   a4 \startTextSpan
>>   b4 c
>>   a4 \stopTextSpan
>> }
>
> That's true.
>
> Just a thought:  Maybe there should be a make-dashed-line-stencil
> function in scm/stencil.scm, which is called by \draw-dashed-line.  It
> would be very similar to make-line-stencil.

Sounds promising.
But I'm too tired to think any more.


-Harm