Re: How are stems created?

[Janek Warchoł]

Hi Phil,

2013/7/30 Phil Holmes <address@hidden>:
> I've been experimenting with alternative algorithms to create the flags used
> in mensural notation (see
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3105), and part of the
> problem appears to be that the stems aren't attached symmetrically to the
> notehead.  I'm not sure whether this is deliberate or not, but I would like
> to look at it.  Could someone who understands this part of LilyPond explain
> how and where stems are added to noteheads (and, for completeness, flags are
> attached to stems)?

Are you still working on this?  I was looking at this area of the code
with my alignment work
(http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3239 and others,
which are the foundation for actually merging some of my gsoc work).
I would be interested in collaborating on this.

Janek