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Re: Proposed horizontal spacing adjustment [was Re: film score example]


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Proposed horizontal spacing adjustment [was Re: film score example]
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 22:16:09 +0200
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PMA <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> PMA<address@hidden>  writes:
>>
>>> Jim Long wrote:
>>>> I suppose that, by extension, this means that a factor of #0.0
>>>> means the layout would have no spacing at all, and all glyphs
>>>> would be engraved over the top of each other in one big blob, and
>>>> a factor of #-1.0 would mean that the glyphs are engraved
>>>> normally, but spaced right-to-left.  For the sake of
>>>> reasonableness/sanity, perhaps Lily might just disallow factors<
>>>> or perhaps even<= 0, unless someone can make a compelling use
>>>> case for non-positive spacing factors.
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>>> Unless we'd prefer to make>0 expand,
>>> <0 contract, and =0 change nothing).
>>
>> And to get right-to-left, you then set the value to i*pi.  And
>> bottom-to-top is i*pi/2.
>>
> I presume this reveals my thought as clueless.

Then whoever designed font-size must be equally clueless.

> Apparently the parameter _must_ function as a factor.  Sorry.

Don't see how this follows.  I was just making some mathematically
inspired fun but it was not really relevant.

-- 
David Kastrup




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