On Saturday, 16 October 1999, John Sankey writes:
> [inward stems of notes on ledger lines are extended to meet the staff
> center, longer than 7]
> JN: "That's hard coded."
>
> Personally, I wish you would un-hardcode it. I don't consider that it
You make it sound as if 'hardcoding' is a feature: just remove the
hard-coded stuff and everything is tweakable :-)
I've added a noStemExtend property, that, if set, prevents all stems
to be extended to the centre staff line. It'll be in pl16.
> looks good at the best of times, and it screws up harpsichord music
> no end. When a note is many ledger lines off the staff, it looks best
> if the stem is reversed to point inward, to keep staff lines from
> being put too far apart. But, it then should be shorter than normal,
> not longer, so it doesn't interfere with other parts on the staff.
Jan.
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