[smufl-discuss] Re: Arrow alignment

[Joseph Berkovitz]

Also, this problem could perhaps be solved with JSON metadata describing the X or Y offset of the arrowhead’s nominal point, much as SMuFL describes the attachment points for stems on notehead glyphs.

On Dec 1, 2014, at 5:27 PM, Daniel Spreadbury <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Erik wrote:
>
>> I'm curious about why the arrows in "Arrows and arrowheads" are not
>> horizontally centered around the y-axis. The most obvious use of an
> arrow is
>> to point at (or away from) something, which would be much easier if the
>> arrow was drawn at the coordinates specified. Now it will be offset to
> the
>> right, and worse, the offset to the arrow line will probably differ
> between
>> fonts, depending on the width of the arrowhead.
>
> I didn't put a huge amount of thought into the registration of these
> glyphs, and I'm certainly open to reviewing them.
>
> If I understand your request correctly, for the arrowheads (as opposed to
> the arrows with shafts) you want the glyph to be equally balanced either
> side of Y=0. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Perhaps, if it's not too much trouble, you could cook up a little diagram
> (and host it on imgur or Dropbox or similar, since you can't send
> attachments to this list) that illustrates your desired registration, and
> shows what benefit it has?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Daniel
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