Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 2783 in lilypond: wrong placement of timesignature

[lilypond]

Comment #20 on issue 2783 by address@hidden: wrong placement of timesignature
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2783

The origin of this change appears to be
commit 9a38b47c4a4589f2e7c413fcdfff83de454719e6
Author: Rune Zedeler <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Jul 31 06:42:48 2002 +0000

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        * lily/rest.cc:
        * lily/time-signature.cc: spacing for even number of staff lines.

Which would appear to have been involved with the pitched rest positioning  
changes as well which took a lot of discussion until we arrived at a  
consistent solution as well if I remember correctly.

I'll try to see whether I can find any archived discussions about those  
changes at the time they were made.