Re: Using lookup to extract glyphs

[Mats Bengtsson]

Quoting Neil Puttock <address@hidden>:

> 2008/11/28 Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden>:
> > Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> >
> > Now that I've looked a bit more careful, I see that the total height of
> > braceN is given by
> > 10.5*(1+1/150)^N
> > so in other words, if the desired height is H, you can get the number of the
> > corresponding
> > brace glyph by
> > (round (/ (log (/ H 10.5)) (log (+ 1 (/ 1 150)))))
>
> Thanks for working this out, Mats.
>
> How about a middle way, where we have a function to convert from
> points -> brace number?  Then it's up to the user whether they want
> direct access to a specific glyph, or conversion from points.

I don't see the point. If a user had the possibility to specify the 
height in points (or any other sensible unit) as the argument, he'd 
never use the weird numbering that's used internally in LilyPond.

   /Mats