Re: Differing header position depending on tallest letter

2017-03-10 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi David, > >> A markup's reference point _is_ the baseline. > > Really?? > >> It's more a question of what to do with _stacks_ of markups > > These aren’t stacked: > > \version "2.19.54" > > { > \override

Re: Differing header position depending on tallest letter

2017-03-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi David, > A markup's reference point _is_ the baseline. Really?? > It's more a question of what to do with _stacks_ of markups These aren’t stacked: \version "2.19.54" { \override Score.RehearsalMark.extra-spacing-width = #'(-0.5 . 1) \override Score.RehearsalMark.self-alignment-X

Re: Differing header position depending on tallest letter

2017-03-10 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi Peter, > >> this would indeed work, but the approach is quite ugly: > > You should really handle the presentation manipulation in the presentation > layer, not the content layer: > > \version "2.19.54" > > \paper { >

Re: Differing header position depending on tallest letter

2017-03-10 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Peter, > this would indeed work, but the approach is quite ugly: You should really handle the presentation manipulation in the presentation layer, not the content layer: \version "2.19.54" \paper { scoreTitleMarkup = \markup { \combine \fromproperty #'header:title \transparent "Tj"

Re: Differing header position depending on tallest letter

2017-03-10 Thread Peter Crighton
2017-03-10 20:01 GMT+01:00 Robin Bannister : > I once solved a lyrics spacing problem using a strut of my own making. > Something like: > \markup \transparent \huge "|" Yes, this would indeed work, but the approach is quite ugly: \header { title = \markup \overlay {

Re: Differing header position depending on tallest letter

2017-03-10 Thread Robin Bannister
Peter Crighton wrote: Hmm, that doesn’t seem to work. I didn’t know about \strut before, and I’m not sure if I correctly understand how it works, but doesn’t the size of the box depend on the whitespace character and not on the tallest character? I once solved a lyrics spacing problem using a

Re: Differing header position depending on tallest letter

2017-03-10 Thread Peter Crighton
Hmm, that doesn’t seem to work. I didn’t know about \strut before, and I’m not sure if I correctly understand how it works, but doesn’t the size of the box depend on the whitespace character and not on the tallest character? I don’t know which height, if any, a whitespace character in a font

Re: Differing header position depending on tallest letter

2017-03-10 Thread Alexander Kobel
Hi Peter, On 2017-03-09 17:32, Peter Crighton wrote: > Hello all, > > I noticed that the title (and other header types) doesn’t get vertically > positioned according to its baseline (which would make sense to me), but to > its cap height or ascender height. According to NR 4.1.4

Differing header position depending on tallest letter

2017-03-09 Thread Peter Crighton
Hello all, I noticed that the title (and other header types) doesn’t get vertically positioned according to its baseline (which would make sense to me), but to its cap height or ascender height. So if there are several scores with titles with different maximum letter heights, the scores will