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Re: Accidentals centred above notes


From: Richard Shann
Subject: Re: Accidentals centred above notes
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 13:28:08 +0100

On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 14:16 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > the docs (
> > http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/internals/self_002dalignment_002dinterface
> >  ) say:
> > "
> >  self-alignment-X (number)
> >
> >     Specify alignment of an object. The value -1 means left aligned, 0 
> > centered, and 1 right-aligned in X direction. Other numerical values may 
> > also be specified. 
> > "
> >
> > which doesn't give much clue as to what the units are... (if I'm looking
> > at the right thing)
> 
> The units are pretty well-defined.  -1 means left-aligned, 1 means right
> aligned.  So moving the entire width of the object from left edge to
> right edge implies a difference of 2.
> 
> So the unit is half the object width.

Ah, thank you, I see. I think it would be well worth adding that last
sentence to that description. I've submitted this suggestion to
bug-lilypond

Richard






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