Re: Distances and measurements

[Trevor Daniels]

Patrick McCarty wrote Friday, September 26, 2008 12:17 AM

> I noticed your doc update for "Distances and measurements", and it
> looks really great!

I'm not sure about "really great", but thanks anyway!

> I have two suggestions to further improve this section:
>
> 1) The `pt' unit is actually 1/72.27 inch, which is the TeX point.
>
> 2) Staff-space can be used as a unit too in the \paper and \layout blocks:
>
> \paper {
>  top-margin = 5\staff-space
>  bottom-margin = 10\staff-space
> }

Actually it is just a place holder to get the docs into a
presentable state before 2.12, but even so
it should be correct - so thanks for your suggestions.
I'll fix it right away.

> Thanks,
> Patrick

Trevor