Re: Vertical spacing tweaks.

[Trevor Bača]

On 10/1/05, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
> Trevor Bača wrote:
> >>One problem still is visualization: it's hard to see what's going on
> >>unless you completely understand how things work.  One possibility would
> >>be to annotate every tunable dimension on the page, so you can see
> >>exactly what is being tweaked. It would be similar to
> >>
> >>   http://www.mackichan.com/index.html?techtalk/501.htm~mainFrame
> >>
> >>This is a feature that I would like to put up for 130 euro too.
> >>
> >>Anyone for a (co)sponsorship?
> >
> >
> > God yes. I think that would be a major benefit to the system. I'll put
> > up EUR 65; can anyone else meet halfway?
>
> See some samples at
>
>
> http://localhost/lilypond/doc/current/Documentation/topdocs/out-www/NEWS.html
>
> I haven't worked out how to annotate other dimensions on the page in a
> neat way, yet though.
>

I'm a fan. *Much* easier to see what's going on ...

I don't know what one calls this type of "distance and spacing
annotation" user interface; but I think it might make a good design
principle to sprinkle in other parts of the system, too.


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Trevor Bača
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