Re: Horizontal spacing depends on stem 'direction

[David Kastrup]

"Dmytro O. Redchuk" <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu 22 Sep 2011, 09:40 David Kastrup wrote:
>> 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.
> Please, I think it would be great it you added your opinion to tracker. I've
> marked this issue as "needs-evidence" -- but this "evidence" should not be
> lost.

I see James already added the message.  I don't always figure out what
kind of reply ends up in the tracker automatically (probably just those
sent directly by Rietveld's tracker) and what not.

-- 
David Kastrup