Re: Tweaking Hairpin shape

[Thomas Morley]

2018-02-04 21:02 GMT+01:00 Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden>:
> Hi Harm,
>
>> See below.
>
> Once again, a wonderful solution/contribution.
>
>> 'rotation comes too late, use a stencil-override with ly:stencil-rotate 
>> instead.
>
> Is there any reason 'rotation can't come sooner for all grobs, so that 
> skylines and spacing Do The Right Thing™?


Well, I don't know.
Also, I'm not sure, whether there are use cases out there for the
current behaviour of 'rotation.
And the NR states:
"There are only a few situations where the rotation of layout objects is useful"
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/rotating-objects

Cheers,
  Harm