Re: lengthening broken ties

[David Nalesnik]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 7:45 AM, David Nalesnik <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Werner,

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

> Don't know.  In any case, I think the goal should be to make this
> work with an override of 'minimum-length, rather than setting
> 'minimum-length though 'after-line-breaking.

The very problem is that minimum-length gives the distance between
*note heads*, which is completely unusable IMHO.  If I increase
minimum-length globally to fix the broken tie case, the horizontal
size of all other ties is *far* too large.  Or do you mean something
different?

In the case of a broken tie, minimum-length would give the distance relative to a NonMusicalPaperColumn on one side.

If the minimum-length property were accessible later on in the typesetting process, you'd be able to do something like

Why not make it possible to give different values of minimum-length right when you do the basic override?  Perhaps minimum-length could be a pair, one number giving the non-broken value, another giving the broken.  Or--less intrusive--there could be a property alongside it which acted on a broken object,  I think that would be pretty easy to implement.

--David