Re: [PATCH] Fix for bug #218 (center staccato over stem instead of notehead)

[Neil Puttock]

2008/12/8 Maximilian Albert <address@hidden>:

> Awesome to hear and thanks for testing! What do you guys think, should
> a default value be set, and if so which one? I guess something between
> 0.5 and 0.75 would be sensible, according to Reinholds findings.

Though I much prefer the centred-on-stem look (which seems to be
favoured by French publishers), if I had to choose an off-centre
position, I'd plump for 0.5.

> Great! With what you had written in your last email, something along
> these lines should have crossed my mind...
>
> Could it be worthwhile to wire this function into lilypond itself,
> since I suppose that most people would want to change the property
> only for specific scripts? Or is it sufficient to put it into the docs
> somewhere (perhaps in the corresponding LSR snippet itself)?

I think it's a bit too limited to be included in the source, since it
only allows you to override one articulation at a time; furthermore,
if a particular script has a default in scripts.scm (as suggested for
staccato), it will ignore any override.

Including it in an LSR snippet probably wouldn't do any harm though.

Regards,
Neil