Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 2527 in lilypond: Finger-flag collision

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Comment #2 on issue 2527 by address@hidden: Finger-flag collision
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2527

The new patch exposes an area of the code base where the new skyline work  
will be key.  Treating flags and stems as all-or-nothing objects pushes  
fingerings away too much, but if we used their vertical and horizontal  
skylines, the fingerings would only shift enough to avoid the part that  
they'd actually intersect with.  So this patch would be a sort of stop gate  
solution before the skyline work.

I'm ambivalent about the patch.  Normally I'd be for non-collision over  
collision, but this results in much wider default spacing.  I'd be  
interested what pianists have to say.  Specifically, la raison d'être of  
the patch comes from perusing Phil Hézaine's work on Schumann w/ fingerings.

What would Elaine Gould do?