Re: horizontally centering denominator in compound time signatures

[Neil Puttock]

2008/11/30 Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden>:

> If you take a look at
>       http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~reinhold/temp/time_sigs.pdf
> (where each fraction is a separate make-center-column-markup), you will see at
> the first time signature that the extents to the right of the enter of the
> centered column are calculated correctly. But if you look at the other time
> signatures, you'll notice that the parts of each fraction are correctly
> aligned with each other, but the whole fraction is positioned as if there was
> nothing left of its center. So, my guess is that the extents of the stencil
> for the whole centered column are set to the center as the left edge instead
> of the real extents...

Ah yes, I see the problem.

> On the other hand, the time sig after measure 6 (the one at the end of the
> line) does NOT overlap with the barline, so somehow the left extents seem to
> work there...

That's because the 'space-alist for BarLine uses 'extra-space instead
of 'minimum-space for time-signature; why this should stop the
collision, I don't know.

Regards,
Neil