Re: Optical spacing -- no more?

[David Kastrup]

Mark Knoop <address@hidden> writes:

> 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?

Well, I don't know whether we are supposed to alter the essay after the
fact...  It's conceivable that the defaults changed over time, too.

-- 
David Kastrup