Re: Doc: 2.19 changes cuts off varC clef

[Werner LEMBERG]

> This is a problem of bounding boxes.

Well...

> All the graphics files are being automatically cropped according to
> the characters' bounding boxes and as all the varC clefs don't have
> their proper heights and depths in Metafont, the "balls" will be cut
> off.

... we have to differentiate between the metrics used in lilypond
(this is what the lilypond tables in the fonts contain) and the
bounding boxes used for cropping.  The boxes you display in the image
are the metrics used by lilypond.

> We should adapt the new clefs' bounding boxes to their actual size,
> shouldn't we?

The metrics are fine, but the bboxes aren't.


    Werner