- 2009/6/27 Darcy James Argue <djar...@earthlink.net>
> Hi Andrew > > On 26 Jun 2009, at 6:47 AM, Andrew Moschou wrote: > > You can do the next best thing and say put the text at 130 mm (or >> whatever) >> from the top margin. >> > > But this is not the "next best thing." If I want a 96 pt. page turn arrow > vertically and horizontally centered on a 9" tall page, what values do I > enter? Well, it depends how tall the font arrow glyph is. But how do I know > how tall it is? I would have to buy a font editor to find out. And then what > if the client decides they want 9.5" tall paper instead, mid-project? > > The whole UI for this is a bit absurd -- Finale can do this easily, > Siblelius makes me eyeball it. > If it's not the next best thing, then what do you propose is better that it, but not as good as vertically centred text? You will need to do some calculation: Call the page height p (say 9"), the top margin t (say 0.5") and the bottom margin b (say 0.75"). Call the font size a (say 96 pt), this is the distance from bottom of descender to top of ascender. Note that 72 pt = 1", so a = 96/72 = 1.333" and 1" = 25.4 mm. Now the distance from the top margin to put the text is: (p - t - b - n*a)/2 = (9 - 0.5 - 0.75 - 1*1.333)/2 = 3.208" = 3.208*2.54 = 81.5 mm, where n = 1. In my testing, I found that this calcuation is accurate to within about 2 millimetres. I don't know where the error came from. Note that this calculation applies to a single line text. If you have two lines of text, then set n = 2, etc. If you client wants decides to have 9.5" paper, then set p = 9.5 and recalculate the value. There is no need to open the font in a font editor, the point size of the text tells you how tall each line is. Andrew _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
