Re: Adjusting OttavaBracket parameters (was "Re: can't seem to apply tweaks on tweaks")

[David Kastrup]

Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Harm,
>
> Thank you so much for doing all this! Very informative and helpful.
>
>> I made some fundamental research about spanners with line-interface
>> and those with additional line-spanner-interface.
>> Code, pdf, log attached. Their behaviour is inconsistent, to say the least.
>
> =(
>
>> Regarding default OttavaBracket:
>> It doesn't have line-spanner-interface […]
>> It is discussable whether OttavaBracket should behave more like other
>> spanners with line-spanner-interface. I guess the main reason why
>> OttavaBracket is done as it is, was to have edge-height and
>> bracket-flare user-settable.
>> Though, this may be possible even if the stencil-procedure would
>> listen to the properties from line-spanner-interface.
>> 
>> This would mean to rewrite the stencil, ofcourse. C++ work, which I
>> can't do myself.
>
> David K: Here, I believe, is a perfect example of a well-defined task
> that I would be happy to sponsor.

"particular" is not the same as "well-defined".  I can't even figure out
what this is supposed to be about.

-- 
David Kastrup