Re: Documentation errors

[Mats Bengtsson]

I still don't think it's correct. It first says that
shortest-duration-space is set to 1.2 by default and on the
second line it says that the same property is set to 2.0 by
default.
In the actual implementation, you have
        (shortest-duration-space . 2.0)
        (spacing-increment . 1.2)


   /Mats

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
>
> > In Section 4.6.3 "Horizontal Spacing", it says
> >
> > "Normally, shortest-duration-space is set to 1.2, which is the width of 
> > a note head, and shortest-duration-space is set to 2.0, meaning that the 
> > shortest note gets 2 NHW (i.e. 2 times shortest-duration-space) of 
> > space. For normal notes, this space is always counted from the left edge 
> > of the symbol, so the shortest notes are generally followed by one NHW 
> > of space."
> >
> > I guess that a number of the references to "shortest-duration-space"
> > should be replaced by references to "spacing-increment" or some other
> > property, but I don't dare try to correct this mess, since I'm not
> > 100% certain about what you really mean.
>
>
> no, it's correct. shortest-duration-space is wrongly named; it is a
> factor. Space is 
>
> ( log2( shortest-playing-duration/shortest-duration)
>   + shortest-duration-space) * spacing-increment

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