Re: strange bbox of 'flat' glyph

[James]

On 08.11.2021 18:30, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > Does anybody know why the top and the bottom of the bounding box of
> > the 'Flat' glyph, contrary to 'Sharp' and 'Natural', don't coincide
> > (more or less) with the extrema of the glyph's outline? A small
>
> I can't remember any reason.


> The question is whether we should fix this.

> Given that such a change would only affect markups where you access
> the glyph with `\flat` or something similar (that is, the markup is
> handled by Pango, and we won't change the horizontal advance width),
> the risk of unwanted effects like text reflow is quite low IMHO.


> Werner

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I created https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6208 anyway so 
that we don't 'discover' this all over again in a few years time.

Regards

James