On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Patrick McCarty<pnor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are there any guidelines LilyPond adheres to for creating bounding > boxes? > > For example, when I adjusted the bbox for the \eyeglasses markup > command, I _underestimated_ the bbox. Should I have slightly > _overestimated_ instead? Attached is a PNG displaying the bbox. > > Also, in the case of Metafont glyphs, there doesn't appear to be a > clear convention: some bounding boxes are underestimated, but others > are overestimated. There is no strict convention. Some dimensions are used very specifically inside lilypond, so they should be exact (for example: note head dimensions); for others, the difference is unimportant: the bass clef is covered by the staff anyway, so the half-linethick error does not make a difference -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
