Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > Also many lines, shapes, doodles, trills, appogiaturas, and
> > so on, can be written as Metafonts programs. But to get
> > unspecified stuff inserted into lilypond we maybe will need some
> > sort of generic symbol, whose meaning lily dont know about ,
> > but will place according to some relative (x..y) box specification,
> > or am I completely wrong here ?
>
> It is evident that in the long run such a feature is needed. What I
> don't yet see is, how to do this in such a way the input file remains
> independent of implementation details, and is `portable' (ie. will
> look good across all LilyPond versions)
hmm, no that is probably not easy.
I have also thought a bit more on this, and maybe it is
a kind of "design cheating" (cutting a corner, by pushing the music
typesetting spacer sensitive stuff down on to the metafont level),
and maybe not very elegant.
But on the other hand many pratical problems, end up needing
strange tweaking or customizations to get solved well for
the printouts to look right.
best regards
Michael Nyvang.
