Re: where X-extent of noteheads is set?

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/8/7 Bertrand Bordage <address@hidden>:
>> I've done a very dirty test which showed that a properly set glyph
>> bounding box solves this perfectly (see in the attachment how the
>> bounding box should change).
>> However, there is a problem.  Currently bounding box is set by
>> procedure draw_outside_ellipse (defined in mf/feta-params.mf) - it is
>> not set in the definition of the glyph.  How to set glyph bounding box
>> to something different than outside_ellipse bounding box?
>
> You could define it in the "final" definitions of glyphs. Here is an
> example. Of course, these values have to be define in a clean metafont way.
> fet_beginchar ("Brevis notehead", "sM1");
> draw_brevis (1, 1);
> draw_staff (-2, 2, 0);
> set_char_box (.1 staff_space#, 2.1 staff_space#, .5 staff_space#, .5
> staff_space#);
> fet_endchar;

Yes, it works!
I'll upload a draft soon.

thanks,
Janek