[smufl-discuss] Re: Note head height

[Laurent Pugin]

The y=0 makes sense and I understand how to set the position the note.
However, if I set it the size to 20pt, then a half-note head will be
taller than a whole-note head even if they are a the same position. Am
I overlooking something?

Laurent

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Daniel Spreadbury
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Laurent wrote:
>
>> I am looking at the SMUFL specifications for font metrics and try to
>> understand how it works with the Bravura font. Looking at the font, I
>> noticed that the height of note head glyph can vary. For the standard
>> whole note head (E0A2), the glyph goes from -136 below the baseline to
>> 137 above it. For a half-note head (E0A3), the glyph goes from -145
>> below the baseline to 145 above it. How is this supposed to fit a
>> staff space? If I understand correctly, the note head is meant to file
>> a interline for a staff of 1em, that is 250 with a 1000 upm. I guess
>> we also have to take into account the staff line thickness, but I am
>> not sure I understand how this is supposed to work and how to deal
>> with the height difference.
>
> The idea is that the height difference doesn't matter: the glyphs are
> registered such that the centre of the staff line or space on which they
> should be positioned corresponds with y=0, i.e. the glyph baseline. So
> provided you have your font size set correctly (if you are drawing a staff
> height of 20pt, say, then you should set the size of Bravura to 20pt as
> well), simply positioning the glyph at the appropriate staff position will
> give a correct result, without any specific consideration of the height of
> the notehead glyph itself.
>
> Daniel
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