From: Daniel Spreadbury
[Placement of augmentation dots and accidentals]
> My response to this is that I think this is the responsibility of the
consuming software, rather than the font designer. Although you could
argue that the font designer might have a specific rationale for wanting
augmentation dots to be positioned just so, ...
I think you're right. To some extent it is inescapable.
Augmentation dot positions vary vertically according to context (in line
with the centre of the note, slightly raised or slightly lowered) and so
placement involves more than just placement of letters along a line of text.
The horizontal position of accidentals is also a complicated task in general
(thinking of stacks of notes to form a chord containing intervals of 2nds
3rds etc). Any client software will have to impose a considerable degree of
autonomy, so there seems little to be gained by prescribing the simplest
case.
[Of course the software may have to know the dimensions of the symbol, but
it can get that information by interrogating the font.]
Dave
David Webber
Mozart Music Software
http://www.mozart.co.uk/
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