Re: Horizontal spacing depends on stem 'direction

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/9/9 Keith OHara <address@hidden>:
> Trevor Daniels <t.daniels <at> treda.co.uk> writes:
>
>> It seems the horizontal spacing is slightly dependent on the stem
>> direction.
>
> This spacing was intentional, including the spacing adjustment
> between stems and bar lines :
> <http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/essay/engraving-details#optical-
> spacing>

What i find most fascinating is the fact that there is also a
correction for stem-barline spacing at the beginning of the measure,
but it's a bit smaller than the correction at the end of the measure.
See attached.
It's also interesting that the correction doesn't depend on the
distance between last note and the barline.  I think the correction
could be smaller when the distance is bigger. See

\version "2.15.8"
\score {
 \relative c'' {
  \repeat unfold 4 { a4 a a a }   a8 a a a a a a a   a8 a a a a2
 }
}

\score {
 \relative c'' {
  \repeat unfold 4 { c4 c c c }   c8 c c c c c c c   c8 c c c c2
 }
}

cheers,
Janek

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