Re: problem with articulation, when using ekmelily

[Thomas Morley]

2018-08-21 13:42 GMT+02:00 Thomas Morley <address@hidden>:
> 2018-08-21 10:17 GMT+02:00 Stefan Thomas <address@hidden>:
>> Dear community,
>> I have a problem with the placement of accents in the following example.
>
> The accent is pushed upwards?
>
>> I know it has to do with the layout-block of ekmel.ily, but I don't know,
>> how to restore the normal behavior.
>> Here is my example:
>>>
>>> \version "2.18.2"
>>> \include"ekmel.ily"
>>> Music = {    \tuplet 5/4 { as''16 ->  \mf f''8 as'' ->  }  \tuplet 5/4 {
>>> f''16 g''8 r }  r2 }
>>> \score { \new Staff { \Music } }
>>
>> The file ekel.ily can be found at
>> http://www.ekmelic-music.org/software/ekmelily-1.10.zip
>> Thanks for Your help!
>> Stefan
>
> It's probably because the Ekmelos-accidentals are wider than the default.
> In your example stencil-extent in X-axis is (0.0 . 1.05844251968504)
> Wile default would be (-0.12001 . 0.800004)
> Though, I'm not a font expert, can't say more...
>
> Additionally the ekmel-accidentals extents are boxes, whereas with the
> default accidentals skylines are more tight, see attached png
> Not sure how to get this right.
>
> Nevertheless your example can be fixed with
> \override Staff.AccidentalPlacement.right-padding = 0.25
> default is 0.15
>
> Some other remarks:
>
> (1)
> You likely know it does not compile with recent 2.19.xx versions,
> because the `parser`-argument is unnecessary in 2.19. for
> `ly:parser-set-note-names` and `ly:parser-include-string`
>
> (2)

Sorry!
This should read
Since guile-2.2.4

>  Since guile-2.2.3 the construct
> (if (not (defined? ...)
>     (define ... ...))
> returns an error:
> "definition in expression context, where definitions are not allowed,"
>
> Instead one could do:
>     (module-define! (current-module) ... ...)
> or
>     (ly:parser-define! ... ...)
>
> Not sure what we should recommend.
>
> Ofcourse (2) can be ignored as long as you don't try to compile
> lilypond yourself with this guile-version.
>
>
> Cheers,
>   Harm