Re: Renaming the 'space alist-key

[Trevor Daniels]

Mark Polesky wrote Saturday, November 06, 2010 5:32 PM


> 7 proposals for renaming the 'space alist-key have been
> discussed, but a decision has not yet been made.  And I just
> added an 8th proposal (initial-distance).
>
> To recap, I think the arguments *for* each of these are
> mostly self-evident, so the list here only includes the
> arguments *against* those that have been opposed:
>
> 1) default-distance
>   * sounds like the program's default, not the user's
> 2) optimal-distance
>   * sounds like the resulting trade-off between the
>     desired distance and situational spacing constraints
> 3) desired-distance
> 4) requested-distance
> 5) base-distance
>   * sounds like the distance between "bases"
> 6) unstretched-distance
>   * sounds like space can only stretch, not compress
> 7) basic-distance
> 8) initial-distance
>
> I vote for either 7 or 8.  What about you?

9) initial-separation
  * longer but describes the meaning more accurately
    now we have an item-item-spacing format

I vote for 8 or 9.

Trevor