Me and Braille music again

2004-02-24 Thread Ralph Little
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

Re: Me and Braille music again

2004-02-24 Thread Mats Bengtsson
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

RE: Me and Braille music again

2004-02-24 Thread Han-Wen Nienhuys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: do them as a font? Isn't it easier to do a markup, eg. \markup { \braile #..o.o.o } which takes the pattern of . and o and puts the dots in the right place? That's a cool idea. However, some Braille users seem to be a bit fussy about how their

RE: Me and Braille music again

2004-02-24 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, OK, Sounds sensible, I'll go along with all of that. Yoodaboss! No, who would do that? If it is working, we will ship and document the BrailleStaff in the standard distribution. snigger We have customers that say that. Don't worry about it, we'd never do that! I'd better get on with