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Re: Guidelines for bounding boxes?
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Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: |
Re: Guidelines for bounding boxes? |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:53:25 -0300 |
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Patrick McCarty<address@hidden> wrote:
> Are there any guidelines LilyPond adheres to for creating bounding
> boxes?
>
> For example, when I adjusted the bbox for the \eyeglasses markup
> command, I _underestimated_ the bbox. Should I have slightly
> _overestimated_ instead? Attached is a PNG displaying the bbox.
>
> Also, in the case of Metafont glyphs, there doesn't appear to be a
> clear convention: some bounding boxes are underestimated, but others
> are overestimated.
There is no strict convention. Some dimensions are used very
specifically inside lilypond, so they should be exact (for example:
note head dimensions); for others, the difference is unimportant: the
bass clef is covered by the staff anyway, so the half-linethick error
does not make a difference
--
Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
- Re: Guidelines for bounding boxes?, (continued)
- Re: Guidelines for bounding boxes?, Patrick McCarty, 2009/08/11
- Re: Guidelines for bounding boxes?, Joe Neeman, 2009/08/12
- Re: Guidelines for bounding boxes?, Werner LEMBERG, 2009/08/13
- Re: Guidelines for bounding boxes?, David Kastrup, 2009/08/14
- Re: Guidelines for bounding boxes?, Reinhold Kainhofer, 2009/08/14
- Re: Guidelines for bounding boxes?, Werner LEMBERG, 2009/08/14
- Re: Guidelines for bounding boxes?, David Kastrup, 2009/08/14
- Re: Guidelines for bounding boxes?, Werner LEMBERG, 2009/08/17
- Re: Guidelines for bounding boxes?, Werner LEMBERG, 2009/08/12
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