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Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions
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David Kastrup |
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Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions |
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Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:17:12 +0200 |
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Mark Polesky <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>> The main problem I see with that naming scheme is that it
>> does not reflect score sheet design, but the current
>> implementation.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> So the proposed scheme ties something presented as document
>> spacing parameters into internal details of their
>> implementation.
>
> What would you propose to resolve that?
I don't think I can propose something that would not move seriously into
GLISS domain. I don't see how one could sensibly manage this in a
natural, designer-intuitive way without a spacing system that offers
some sort of inheritance/fallback/hierarchy where you can get consistent
design by specifying few parameters, but have an option to specify more
specialized spacing independently/additionally and/or combine several
simultaneously triggered spacing parameters (i.e., taking their
maximum).
The usual kind of document spacings fall into several kinds depending on
a hierachy level. If we say that a high hierarchy level corresponds to
low letters, low hierarchy to later letters, you may have
inter-b-spacing for b-b
before-b-spacing for c-b, d-b, e-b
after-b-spacing for b-c, b-d, b-e
But after-a-spacing for a-b.
I am not sure that this sort of pure hierarchy is good enough, or
whether one needs some max/min scheme.
The basic point is that for x different document element levels, we get
along more or less with a hierarchy and 3*x settings rather than x^2
flat settings.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, (continued)
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Wols Lists, 2010/10/12
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Carl Sorensen, 2010/10/12
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Trevor Daniels, 2010/10/12
- systems (was: names of vertical spacing dimensions), Graham Percival, 2010/10/13
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, David Kastrup, 2010/10/12
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Mark Polesky, 2010/10/12
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, David Kastrup, 2010/10/13
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Carl Sorensen, 2010/10/13
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, David Kastrup, 2010/10/13
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Carl Sorensen, 2010/10/13
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, David Kastrup, 2010/10/13
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Carl Sorensen, 2010/10/13
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, David Kastrup, 2010/10/14
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Trevor Daniels, 2010/10/14
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, David Kastrup, 2010/10/14
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Trevor Daniels, 2010/10/14