David Kastrup wrote Tuesday, August 28, 2012 5:10 PM
> "Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> writes: > >> While considering how to add a footnotes to TextScript I came across >> this, which could be intended or a bug. If the positioning number pair >> is set to #'(0 . 0) the footnote mark is located in both x and y directions >> on the centre of the TextScript object, but if the values are set to any >> non-zero value the offsets are calculated from the top-right corner of the >> TextScript object. So to position the mark where it would normally be >> after text you have to set the values to any tiny non-zero value. >> >> It would be better if #'(0 . 0) resulted in the correct positioning for >> TextScript. > > I don't see what the "correct positioning" would even be in that case: Well, I would expect a footnote mark on text to be top right by default. > if a coordinate is positive, you go from the upper respectively right > border, if it is negative, from the lower respectively left border, if > it is zero, from the center. That makes _perfect_ sense as long as at > least one coordinate is non-zero. If _both_ are zero, how to choose > among the 8 possible border points? That's sensible enough, but it needs documenting. I'll add it to my list of things to do to document footnotes. > Picking the center at least is consistent. Indeed, although not much use. Trevor _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
