Re: Issue 1912 in lilypond: Horizontal spacing depends on stem 'direction

[lilypond]

Comment #1 on issue 1912 by address@hidden: Horizontal spacing depends  
on stem 'direction
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1912

In my opinion, this report is invalid.  Since Lilypond does optical
justification of noteheads (cf node "Optical Spacing" in the Lilypond
Essay), of _course_ its spacing depends on the stem direction.  And of
_course_ this implies that there will be a small borderline where page
break decisions _also_ differ depending on the stem direction.

A human engraver will make a random decision, and stick with this
decision even when one stem is flipped around for the next iteration,
changing the spacing slightly.

Lilypond does not remember what it did last time around with that score,
and it does not throw dice.

--
David Kastrup