Paul Scott wrote Saturday, January 31, 2009 8:47 PM
Kieren MacMillan wrote:
The first property description on that page is:
"X-extent (pair of numbers) Hard coded extent in X direction."
I had no trouble finding X-extent in the docs. Reading that did not
tell me what X-extent meant.
So the command I suggested simply convinces the spacing engine
BarNumbers have no width.
That helps me make sense of what X-extent means.
A more extensive description is rather well hidden in
section 5.5.1 of the Notation Reference. It says:
"All graphical objects have a reference point, a horizontal extent and
a vertical extent. The horizontal extent is a pair of numbers giving
the displacements from the reference point of the left and right
edges, displacements to the left being negative. The vertical extent
is a pair of numbers giving the displacement from the reference point
to the bottom and top edges, displacements down being negative."