Re: percent repeat glyph

[Neil Puttock]

Hi Daniel,

2008/11/17 Daniel Hulme <address@hidden>:
> I have just got back from a band rehearsal, and tonight for the first
> time I could see what bothers me about Lilypond's percent glyph: the
> dots are too far out. I think they should be horizontally closer to the
> centre, so that the space between the dot and the oblique stroke is more
> like the space between the dot and the staff lines. As it is, the pointy
> whitespace between the dot and the corner of the stroke makes it look
> like the dots are vertically off-centre in the staff space.

I think the best option is to make the kerning settings tweakable.
In fact, there's a TODO in the source suggesting this.

I've just submitted a patch for review; attached is some sample output.

Regards,
Neil

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