Re: fine-tuning new flags - feedback needed

[Keith OHara]

On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:01:02 -0800, Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> wrote:

> Please tell me what you think.
> Graham, Han-Wen, Reinhold, Keith - may i ask for your opinion too?
> After all, this changes will affect virtually all scores (all notes on
> middle line of the staff will have longer stems, not mentioning other
> changes). Also it's my first contribution, and i've spent many hours
> fine-tuning the new flags, so i'd like to know how this turned out.
> (as for the c++ code - i'm totally aware that it needs improvement.
> metafont is much easier ;P).
Janek,
 I am not going to have an aesthetic opinion.  I read and write mostly piano 
music, which is crowded enough that I don't notice changes on the scale you are 
proposing.

 You should use the properties defined in scm/define-grobs.scm under Stem, 
'lengths' and 'stem-shorten', to hold your adjusted values.
Other parts of the code might need to access these values, in order to know how 
much to lengthen a stem to avoid other note-heads, for example.
--
Keith