Re: Optical spacing fails at tight situations

[James Bailey]

On Dec 30, 2010, at 12:48 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> didn't find it in the tracker so i report:
> optical spacing doesn't work as expected in the following situation:
> 
> \version "2.13.43"
> \new Score {
>       \repeat unfold 12 { c''16 [ d'' b' c'' ] \noBreak }
> }
> 
> All 16ths are spaced equally, while the distance betwwen d and b
> should be smaller. When notes are not so tight, it works as expected,
> try
> 
> \version "2.13.43"
> \new Score {
>       \repeat unfold 8 { c''16 [ d'' b' c'' ] \noBreak }
> }
> 
> yours Pondly,
> Janek

Is this unexpected behavior? Does the ragged-right or /noBreak affect this? 
Clearly the difference is there. My question is, is it a feature, or a bug?