Re: Left-handed fretboard?

[David Kastrup]

Torsten Hämmerle <address@hidden> writes:

> Indeed, Karlin,
>
> you are perfectly right - thanks for the observation! 
> This is definitely not a Windows problem, it's an unwanted side effect of
> using negative string distances:
> The total width (5 times the string distance on a 6 string instrument) has
> to be increased by the half the line thickness on either side in order to
> neatly align.
>
> In our mirrored case, the (negative!) line thickness is added, i.e. the line
> thickness is actually being subtracted (!), so that the horizontal bar (the
> "nut") aligns with the inner margins of the "strings" rather than the outer
> margins.
>
> If we want to deliberately and officially use the negative string distance
> hack, we could adapt the width calculation by just adding the *absolute
> value of the string thickness* (thus ignoring the sign of string-distance) -
> that'll do the trick.

Definitely think we should do that.

-- 
David Kastrup