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

[David Kastrup]

Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

I don't see that.  Here is an example file and the output for 2.16.0 and
2.17.20.  Note that for the latter, the middle of the staff is the
baseline.

\markup { Look here: \score { { c1 } \layout { indent = 0\cm } } }

-- 
David Kastrup