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From: | Alexander Kobel |
Subject: | Re: Add prefix to lyrics |
Date: | Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:14:24 +0200 |
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On 2010-09-02 18:03, David Kastrup wrote:
You could easily overlap multiple dash glyphs in order to arrive at arbitrary lengths.This won't work for fonts with uncommonly designed dashes, say one slightly slanted to the top, like a / with less height.So what?Perhaps scale horizontally?Ruins the design of the end points. And actually would be rather bad for the kind of "slightly slanted" because the slant would become unrecognizable as a feature of the dash and instead look like an accidental misalignment with other horizontal lines. You might actually be better off with overlaps (implemented as dashing with slightly negative distance). Or with not using such a font at all. Which is not likely anyway.
True, true. Didn't think about this.I'm not sure the problem exists, though - in the situation Dmytro mentioned, hyphens only get shortened. Then, scaling is an option while overlapping is not applicable. The equivalent approch for shortening would be to cut out a piece in the middle of the dash. Both sound bad, IMHO. Hm.
@ David: What I'm not quite sure about yet: Do you - in general - think the font glyph should or should not be used?
Cheers, Alexander
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