Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

[Mark Knoop]

At 15:15 on 10 Jul 2014, Noeck wrote:
>Am 10.07.2014 14:50, schrieb David Kastrup:
>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> If I write
>>>
>>> \relative c'' { e4 c, f' d, g' e, a' f, }
>>> % \addlyrics { ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! }
>> 
>> Obviously, remove the % character for that experiment...
>> 
>
>That is quite convincing.
>So I guess the default spacing is now a bit thighter compared to
>http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.14/Documentation/essay/engraving-details#optical-spacing
>which reduces the optical impression but the feature is still there.

For some reason (presumably to slightly exaggerate the effect) the
example in the essay includes:

\override NoteSpacing.stem-spacing-correction = #0.6

as opposed to the default of #0.5. Might it be a good idea for the
feature to be illustrated with the default value?

-- 
Mark Knoop