Re: new bar-lines / issue 1320

2012-06-04 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 05.06.2012 08:29, schrieb Marc Hohl: Hi all, Am 03.06.2012 22:58, schrieb Thomas Morley: Hi, together with Marc Hohl I was working on Issue 1320 for a couple of weeks. Now we have a first working version using a new approach to design BarLines: Only simple BarLines are predefined e.g "|"

Re: new bar-lines / issue 1320

2012-06-04 Thread Marc Hohl
Hi all, Am 03.06.2012 22:58, schrieb Thomas Morley: Hi, together with Marc Hohl I was working on Issue 1320 for a couple of weeks. Now we have a first working version using a new approach to design BarLines: Only simple BarLines are predefined e.g "|" "." ":" etc (plus some exceptions). Some

Re: new bar-lines / issue 1320

2012-06-04 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Graham Percival wrote: > My recommendation: just pick something you like and run with it. > Right now this is in the "sour spot" of bikeshedding.  We should > either have a formal discussion (which waits until GLISS), or just > get something done by you picking arbi

Re: new bar-lines / issue 1320

2012-06-04 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 04.06.2012 17:13, schrieb Graham Percival: On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 05:01:44PM +0200, Marc Hohl wrote: Am 04.06.2012 13:21, schrieb Janek Warchoł: How about ! then? It actually has both | and . in it, and it _is_ a sentence ending punctuation. I missed something; why not keep . for the thic

Re: new bar-lines / issue 1320

2012-06-04 Thread Graham Percival
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 05:01:44PM +0200, Marc Hohl wrote: > Am 04.06.2012 13:21, schrieb Janek Warchoł: > >>How about ! then? It actually has both | and . in it, and it _is_ a > >>sentence ending punctuation. I missed something; why not keep . for the thick one? as in the current "|." ? > "="

Re: new bar-lines / issue 1320

2012-06-04 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 04.06.2012 13:21, schrieb Janek Warchoł: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:55 AM, David Kastrup wrote: Werner LEMBERG writes: Uh, oh, please not a letter. I almost always use seriffed fonts, and it looks rather strange. What slightly longer but easy to remember symbolics? || Please no. Let

Re: new bar-lines / issue 1320

2012-06-04 Thread Janek Warchoł
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:55 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > Werner LEMBERG writes: >> Uh, oh, please not a letter.  I almost always use seriffed fonts, and >> it looks rather strange.  What slightly longer but easy to remember >> symbolics? >> >>   || Please no. Let's keep this one-lettered. (other

Re: new bar-lines / issue 1320

2012-06-04 Thread Thomas Morley
2012/6/4 Werner LEMBERG : >>> Uh, oh, please not a letter.  I almost always use seriffed fonts, and >>> it looks rather strange.  What slightly longer but easy to remember >>> symbolics? >>> >>>   | >>> >>>   || >> >> How about ! then?  It actually has both | and . in it, and it _is_ a >> sentence

Re: new bar-lines / issue 1320

2012-06-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Uh, oh, please not a letter. I almost always use seriffed fonts, and >> it looks rather strange. What slightly longer but easy to remember >> symbolics? >> >> | >> >> || > > How about ! then? It actually has both | and . in it, and it _is_ a > sentence ending punctuation. > >> || |: >

Re: new bar-lines / issue 1320

2012-06-04 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG writes: >>> Frankly, it always confuses me when i have to code a thick line >>> using "." - it's very unintuitive. What about changing this to >>> some other character? Maybe uppercase i? It looks "thicker" - >>> unless you use a sans-serif font... >> >> +1 >> >> I thought abou

Re: new bar-lines / issue 1320

2012-06-04 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> Frankly, it always confuses me when i have to code a thick line >> using "." - it's very unintuitive. What about changing this to >> some other character? Maybe uppercase i? It looks "thicker" - >> unless you use a sans-serif font... > > +1 > > I thought about uppercase I, too. "|I" looks n

Re: new bar-lines / issue 1320

2012-06-04 Thread Marc Hohl
Am 04.06.2012 09:14, schrieb Janek Warchoł: Hi, On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: together with Marc Hohl I was working on Issue 1320 for a couple of weeks. Now we have a first working version using a new approach to design BarLines: wow! Looks very impressive! Please

Re: new bar-lines / issue 1320

2012-06-04 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Thomas Morley wrote: > > together with Marc Hohl I was working on Issue 1320 for a couple of weeks. > Now we have a first working version using a new approach to design BarLines: wow! Looks very impressive! > Please note, there was need to change some glyph