Re: Design flaw in Rest_collision

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On 5 nov. 2012, at 10:11, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
>>> Do the different rest glyphs actually have different height?  Would
>>> it be possible to stipulate that they are not supposed to, and just
>>> let the code for rest height in general return the height of the
>>> standard rest glyph without bothering to check the on-staffiness?
> 
> I don't understand.  A 64th rest glyph certainly has a larger height
> than a glyph for the whole rest.

No, we're talking about the height of something like rests.1 compared to 
rests.1o in the Feta font.

> 
>> I wanna say that they do (it'd be a difference of half a ledger
>> line) but I could be wrong.  I know nothing about metafont - someone
>> more competent than I would have to check.
> 
> It seems that you mean something special if you talk about `height'...
> 

The question is if these two glyphs have a different Y-extent (rests.1 versus 
rests.1o).

Cheers,
MS