Re: [frogs] Changing subproperties with grob-set-property (working on bug #40)

[Marc Hohl <marc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Puttock schrieb:
> 2009/11/20 Marc Hohl <marc@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>   
> > Is it then possible to create a fingering grob with the
> > gained informations on the fly, get its dimensions, and
> > kill it thereafter?
> >     
>
> AFAIK, only engravers can create grobs.
>
>   
> > Or can I get the information about the used font and can extract the width
> > of a digit somehow?
> >     
>
> You don't know when a collision has occurred, so this wouldn't be very useful.
>   
Hm, I can find out whether the note head has a fingering, so in that
case (given that I get to know whether it is at the left or not) I can
decrease the length of the glissando line. But you're right - very steep
glissando lines can "dive" under the number and need not to be
taken into account.
> A truly generic solution, i.e., one which will cater not only for dots
> and accidentals, but also any type of side-positioned grob, will
> require C++ hacking, probably in both line-spanner.cc and
> glissando-engraver.cc.
>   
Arrrgh, I knew it ... ;-)

Marc
> Regards,
> Neil
>
>   


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