Re: vert. spacing: Rename properties (lily, scm). (issue3031041)

[Trevor Daniels]

address@hidden wrote Friday, November 12, 2010 10:48 PM


> On 2010/11/12 21:53:41, Mark Polesky wrote:
> > I might like to keep staff-staff-spacing for the StaffGrouper
> > prop. I'm thinking it over, and I'll get back to you.
>
> Guys, I'd rather not change StaffGrouper's
> 'staff-staff-spacing to 'default-staff-staff-spacing.  The
> big reason for me is that it is no more a "default spacing"
> than its companion property 'staffgroup-staff-spacing, and
> it would be very weird to call that one
> 'default-staffgroup-staff-spacing.
[snip] 
> If you're okay with that logic, then all that remains is to
> find a better way to explain both #1 and #2a using a single
> property-description, since they share the same name.  I
> propose this:
>
> staff-staff-spacing
>
> When applied to a staff-group's StaffGrouper grob, this
> spacing alist controls the distance between consecutive
> staves within the staff-group.  When applied to a staff's
> VerticalAxisGroup grob, it controls the distance between the
> staff and the nearest staff below it, replacing any settings
> inherited from the StaffGrouper grob of the containing
> staff-group, if there is one.
>
> What do you think?

All LGTM.  Time to get this launched, I think.

Trevor