Re: Renaming the 'space alist-key

[Carl Sorensen]

On 11/6/10 11:32 AM, "Mark Polesky" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 7 proposals for renaming the 'space alist-key have been
> discussed, but a decision has not yet been made.  And I just
> added an 8th proposal (initial-distance).
> 
> 
> To recap, I think the arguments *for* each of these are
> mostly self-evident, so the list here only includes the
> arguments *against* those that have been opposed:
> 
> 1) default-distance
>    * sounds like the program's default, not the user's
> 2) optimal-distance
>    * sounds like the resulting trade-off between the
>      desired distance and situational spacing constraints
> 3) desired-distance
> 4) requested-distance
> 5) base-distance
>    * sounds like the distance between "bases"
> 6) unstretched-distance
>    * sounds like space can only stretch, not compress
> 7) basic-distance
> 8) initial-distance
> 
> I vote for either 7 or 8.  What about you?

3 or 7

Thanks,

Carl