Re: Clarifying the 'padding alist-key

[Mark Polesky]

Mark Polesky wrote:
> 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.


Carl Sorensen wrote:
> I prefer 2.

Trevor Daniels wrote:
> 2, but is "skylines" explained anywhere in the docs?  If
> it is, it is not indexed.


Interesting.  I just assumed you'd both prefer #1, because
IIUC most items don't have skylines for padding.  For
example, do things like title/toplevel markups, lyrics, etc.
have skylines?  If not, I think the wording of #1 is more
accurate.

Trevor: when I `git grep' for "skyline" in the Documentation
directory, I get nothing, so to answer your question: no,
skylines are not explained anywhere in the docs.

- Mark