Re: Optical spacing fails at tight situations

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/1/13 Carl Sorensen <address@hidden>:
> On 1/13/11 8:14 AM, "Janek Warchoł" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>> 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).

The essay says explicitly about an adjustment between notes with up
stems and down stems, but the issue i'm talking about is present in
the musical example provided there (in the second measure).

> 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.

Have you tried compiling the other example i provided, the less
crowded one that is working correctly?

Try measuring distances between stems in the following:

\version "2.13.45"
\new Score {
       \repeat unfold 8 { c''16 [ d'' b' c'' ] \noBreak }
}

The distances are not equal. Optical corrections are made there.

Janek