Re: Adds Ferneyhough hairpins to LilyPond. (issue 7615043)

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On 17 mars 2013, at 17:46, address@hidden wrote:

> On a related issue: one thing that's probably clear looking at
> Ferneyhough scores is the way in which the vertical placement of hairpin
> endpoints is strongly coupled with the vertical placement of dynamic
> marks.
> 
> I don't think it's really appropriate to bundle all of this together
> into one feature request, but it would probably be useful as a
> complementary feature request to do some re-evaluation of Lilypond's
> vertical placement of hairpin end-points, and whether it's possible to
> automate the placement of angled hairpins so as to optimize the relative
> positions of hairpin start- and endpoints and nearby dynamic marks.
> 
> N.B. this is useful for all music, not just Ferneyhough.  It's a fairly
> consistent bugbear of mine that hairpin start- and endpoints are not
> better placed relative to dynamic marks.
> 
> I think this has already been touched on to an extent in the discussion
> above ... ?
> 
> https://codereview.appspot.com/7615043/

It's more swingable now that skylines are based on stencils for many grobs 
instead of extents.
This is the sorta thing I know how to do but that'd take a while.
If you can open a tracker issue w/ the full request, I'll try to get to it (I 
have some time next week and then again in late April).

Cheers,
MS