Re: Optical spacing fails at tight situations

[James Bailey]

On Jan 4, 2011, at 9:22 PM, Keith OHara wrote:

> James Bailey <derhindemith <at> googlemail.com> writes:
>> 
>> 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?
> 
> I did not realize that LilyPond corrected for the optical illusions due to 
> note 
> pitches, for notes with the /same/ stem direction, but now I see it in the 
> Essay.  
> 
> Apparently LilyPond gives up doing this optical correction when the spacing 
> is 
> too tight.  In the example Jan gives, she gives up when optical spacing 
> appears 
> to be still possible, so what Jan reports would be a minor bug, not feature.

I actually re-read the essay just to be sure what it said, but since I didn't 
come away any wiser, I didn't mention it.