Re: Clarifying the 'padding alist-key

[Carl Sorensen]

On 12/8/10 10:52 AM, "Mark Polesky" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Okay, the description I wrote for the 'padding key of the
> spacing alists is clearly incorrect, especially the bit
> about the "unobstructed (invisible) rectangle":
> 
> "padding ­ the minimum required amount of unobstructed
> vertical whitespace between two items, measured in
> staff-spaces.  This can be thought of as the minimum height
> of an unobstructed (invisible) rectangle that extends from
> the leftmost to the rightmost point of the combined items."
> 
> I think that one of the two descriptions below should do.
> But which one is better?
> 
> 1)
> padding ­ the minimum required amount of vertical whitespace
> between two items, measured in staff-spaces.  When
> available, skylines are used in the spacing calculation.
> 
> 2)
> padding ­ the minimum required amount of vertical whitespace
> between the skylines of two items, measured in staff-spaces.

I prefer 2.

Thanks,

Carl