Re: Left-handed fretboard?

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> 2018-01-17 19:08 GMT+01:00 Torsten Hämmerle <address@hidden>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In the more recent developer versions, threre's a surprisingly simple way to
>> reverse the order of strings:
>> just set the string-distance to #-1. ;)
>
> Well, ...
>
> commit 3ea80e17452cb1e99aa4b7ff77b0ae2f5293b50d
> Author: Thomas Morley <address@hidden>
> Date:   Sat Dec 31 12:33:24 2016 +0000
>
>     Let the distance of strings and frets in fret-diagrams be settable
>
>     Issue 5025
>
>     - Two new sub-properties of fret-diagram-details are introduced:
>       fret-distance and string-distance
>     - regtest fret-diagrams-size.ly is extended
>     - entry in changes.tely
>
> lol
>
> So far my simple testings for stencil-dimensions with negative
> string-distance (applying box-markup or box-stencil) showed nothing
> suspicious.
>
> Should we document it as is or introduce a details.subproperty setting
> string-distance negative?

Left-handed diagrams are peculiar enough that if there is a reasonably
simple expedient to get them, we should likely document that (and put it
in the index, of course), maybe with a quoted snippet.  If it seems to
work well enough...

-- 
David Kastrup