Re: parentheses problem

[Mats Bengtsson]

By the way, is it possible/easy to get brackets instead of
parentheses?

   /Mats

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > The new feature regarding parenthesizing as presented in NEWS.html
> > (2006-02-10, 8AM) exhibits two bugs.
> >
> >   . The vertical dimension of parentheses is apparently not included
> >     in the calculation of the whole vertical size.  In the image, the
> >     lower part of the parentheses around the staccato dot are cropped.
> >     Please check this -- it might also be a bug in ps2epsi (which I
> >     recently reported to the ghostscript people), producing bounding
> >     box values one pixel too small.
>
>
> Yes, you're right. I should reconsider some design decisions, I guess.
>
> >   . The horizontal dimension of parentheses are not taken into
> >     account, making lilypond shift the sharp to the left.  This makes
> >     it quite difficult to notice the parentheses at all.
>
>
> I know. This is a difficult problem, in that it is not clear when to 
> include the dimension of the parentheses and when not. For the case of 
> the note head, the stem attachment would be wrong if the parens were 
> included.


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