Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

[David Kastrup]

Noeck <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 10.07.2014 11:42, schrieb Urs Liska:
>> Am 10.07.2014 11:39, schrieb James Harkins:
>>> \version "2.18.2"
>>> \relative c'' { e4 c, f' d, g' e, a' f, }
>> 
>> Hm, there have been quite significant improvements in the horizontal
>> spacing engine recently. Can it be that this is a side-effect of this?
>
>
> It seems like this disappeared before 2.16.2. Since then I can see no
> difference. But I agree, the current spacing does not look like the
> optical spacing to me.

I think that is an optical illusion, as to be expected from optical
spacing.

If I write

\relative c'' { e4 c, f' d, g' e, a' f, }
% \addlyrics { ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! }

I get

And in the lyrics one sees quite well that the middle notes are spaced
further apart than the outer ones.

-- 
David Kastrup