Re: Discuss signature for new function \annotate (new version)

[Richard Shann]

On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 18:52 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > This looks great Urs. I wrote a CriticalComment command for Denemo
> > that allows you to attach comments to notes in a score. These comments
> > can include \score {} blocks so that the music being commented on can
> > be engraved within the sentence.
> 
> Sounds like issue 3187
> <URL:http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3187> committed
> to version 2.17.14 would have a very relevant impact on that feature.
> I'm interested in your opinion on that.

The best-looking height for the music relative to the text seems to
depend on the notes on the staff somewhat. I am not sure I understand
the issue though


> This is an incompatible change, but the previous behavior (placing the
>     _highest_ y coordinate of the score on the baseline, disregarding the
>     staves) was not useful.
> 

I see (with 2.16) the text baseline aligning with the lowest staff line
(in the case of a single staff) regardless of the notes.

Richard