Re: Controlling hairpin length - revisited!

[David Nalesnik]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:28 AM, David Nalesnik
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Kieren,
>
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Kieren MacMillan
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>>> Further down in that thread is an implementation of shorten-pair with
>>> hairpins: 
>>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2016-06/msg00277.html
>>
>> The $1,000,000 Question: Why isn’t this in the distro?  =)
>
> I think the interaction between this and other properties has to be
> nailed down.  I'm not sure if it behaves "as expected" in conjunction
> with whatever other property affects endpoints (to-barline,
> bound-padding).
>
> I'd welcome testing.
>
> Also, there's the issue of programming language.  Should this
> enhancement be added to the C++ original--easy enough-- or should the
> distro ly:hairpin::print be replaced by a Scheme version?
>
> I'd like to see the stencil function in Scheme, because it would then
> be very convenient for users to adapt it to their needs.
>
> A drawback would be speed, but would that even be noticeable?
>


Patch here: https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5029/

Testing welcome!!