Re: parentheses problem

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> The new feature regarding parenthesizing as presented in NEWS.html
> (2006-02-10, 8AM) exhibits two bugs.
>
>   . The vertical dimension of parentheses is apparently not included
>     in the calculation of the whole vertical size.  In the image, the
>     lower part of the parentheses around the staccato dot are cropped.
>     Please check this -- it might also be a bug in ps2epsi (which I
>     recently reported to the ghostscript people), producing bounding
>     box values one pixel too small.

Yes, you're right. I should reconsider some design decisions, I guess.

>   . The horizontal dimension of parentheses are not taken into
>     account, making lilypond shift the sharp to the left.  This makes
>     it quite difficult to notice the parentheses at all.

I know. This is a difficult problem, in that it is not clear when to 
include the dimension of the parentheses and when not. For the case of 
the note head, the stem attachment would be wrong if the parens were 
included.

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