[PATCH] Re: Bass figure extenders' length depends on length of bass figure

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Mittwoch, 24. November 2010, um 16:33:13 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:
> If you use bass figure extenders and you print the accidental after the
> figure, the extender of those figures will be too long compared to the
> other figures. In particular, if you have
>   <6 5+ 3>
>   <6 5+ 3>
> then the extender for the 5+ will end further to the right than the
> extender of the 6 and 3. The amount is exactly the extent of the +.
[...]
> The problem is that when extenders are used, the hidden figures are still
> created as grobs with the same extends as if they were printed, and the
> extender takes those extents.

And here is a patch to fix this particular problem:
   http://codereview.appspot.com/3280042

It does not change the way extenders work, but as a workaround sets the text 
of all (hidden) figures ending an extender to "0", so all end points of 
extenders will be at the same horizontal position. 

Okay to push?

Cheers,
Reinhold

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