Re: flag on mensural custos

[Neil Puttock]

On 16 February 2010 15:56, Laura Conrad <address@hidden> wrote:

> For those of you who haven't flipped immediately to the documentation,
> it says:
>
>  neutral-position (number)
>
>    Position (in half staff spaces) where to flip the direction of
>    custos stem.
>
> I'd have to set up a test case with custodes on each line and space and
> then guess what the default number and direction for this number was and
> determine by trial and error what the number I wanted was.

The default is 3 (it's listed under the settings for the contexts in
the Internals Reference; see for example the entry for VaticanaStaff),
which means 3 half-staff-spaces from the centre line, i.e., the fourth
space on a standard stave.

Depending on how many legered notes you've got, setting
neutral-position to some high value such as 10 should ensure all
custodes stay upright.

> If the
> internals documentation would document the defaults for all numbers, it
> would save people like me who only try to tweak such things once or
> twice a year a lot of time.

This has been discussed several times, but it remains a thorny problem
due to the way most properties are read.

Regards,
Neil