Re: Optical spacing fails at tight situations

[Carl Sorensen]

On 1/13/11 8:14 AM, "Janek Warchoł" <address@hidden>
wrote:

> W dniu 13 stycznia 2011 16:02 użytkownik Carl Sorensen
> <address@hidden> napisał:
>> On 1/13/11 7:24 AM, "Janek Warchoł" <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> looks like this mail was somehow overlooked. May i ask you to answer
>>> the question posed by James - is the behaviour described below
>>> intended?
>> 
>> I assume that the reason it hasn't been answered is because nobody knows.
>> 
>> But as notes are squeezed tighter and tighter, eventually there is no room
>> to increase spacing, which may be necessary for optical spacing.
> 
> I'd say that instead of adding some space between notes that should be
> put farther apart, some space can be substracted from between notes
> that should be closer, and the result is the same.
> There is plenty of space to be substracted from between b and d in the
> example above.

As far as I know, optical spacing is an adjustment between notes with up
stems and down stems (at least that's what the essay says).

In this case, the adjustment you would like to make is between notes with
stems in the same directions.  Are there optical corrections for notes
sharing a beam?  AFAICS, this example looks bad mostly because of the
asymmetry in the beam lengths on the left and right sides of the d.

Thanks,

Carl