I'd recommend to look at the support for figured bass or chord names for some inspiration. It seems that you want to typeset the Braille in a separate context which makes it easy to place it above or below and existing Staff or whatever other context.
/Mats
Ralph Little wrote:
Yippee!!!! I've got some spare time. So, I'm pretty well done doing a Braille font for Lily, that's no problem.
How I've decided to tackle it is to design a new engraver which will "hang" the Braille text across the top of the current context items (e.g. Staff). I've studied a selection of existing engravers and, since Braille music is just a stream of Braille characters, I looked at the LyricText engraver to see how this can easily be achieved. However it contains lots of "ugh"s and some comment about creating space from thin air, so I wonder if that is dodgy territory. :( A simple hbox of text with a Braille font should suffice.
Since everything is spaced and positioned ultimately by chaining grobs off the top, bottom and side of others, I'm not sure how to position a grob above *everything* else for the current Staff.
If anybody has a clue about this or if some kind soul wants to help by producing a simple example of an engraver which would achieve this, I would be eternally grateful and I can get on with the mechanics of the Braille music translation itself.
BTW, what's the significance of the "cheesy" names for things e.g. feta and parmesan. Since I'm looking for a cute name for my new font, how does Brie sound? :)
Regards, Ralph
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