Re: Issue 2051 in lilypond: Patch: Better pure heights for slurs

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On Nov 26, 2011, at 11:28 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> On Nov 26, 2011, at 10:19 PM, Keith OHara wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:38:50 -0800, <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> Keith,
>>> retested.
>>> 
>> Sorry to call you by the wrong name, James.  My eyes saw pkx166h and my 
>> brain though "p h? no that's James" but my fingers were already typed Phil.
>> 
>> I still seems strange that \textLengthOn is failing for you in 
>> 'string-number-around-slur.ly' after this patch, because the patch doesn't 
>> touch text lengths.  But I will stop worrying because, Mike is likely to 
>> drop this patch,
> 
> True that...it's a crappy patch.  The real problem, as you've pointed out, 
> are the extents of Scripts.
> 
> I'll get on it w/in the next two-ish weeks.
> 

I revisited the patch and realized that it's crappiness was due to a 
miscalculation - I've reposted it, and I think it works well now.

Cheers,
MS