Improper text underlay with “(::)”

[FGasper]

%%
(c4) High.(fhGFgvFe) Ps.(::)

… yields:

… on http://run.gregoriochant.org/cgi/process.pl, which says it’s running 5.0.2. I get a similar response, though, from my local 5.2.0 installation via MacPorts.

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I’m not sure what the underlying issue is, but the underlay algorithm appears not to handle something in this input ideally?

Thank you for your time.

[rpspringuel]

This appears to be a duplicate of #1384, and is a result of the bar spacing algorithm working as intended. As you're not the first person to complain about this, perhaps we should take this as a signal to prioritize better documentation of how the bar spacing algorithm is supposed to work.

[fiat96]

For the record, I have often had better luck putting such text as "Ps." after the double bar, thusly:

%%
(c4) High.(fhGFgvFe) (::) Ps. Ad(hg) te(gh) (::)

It's still not perfect, but it tends to be much better than Ps.(::)

This code also works better with line breaks. If an automatic line break falls just after that double-bar, the "Ps." will go to the next line with the following text. In your original code, the "Ps." would stay stuck on the first line with the double bar.