Re: Clarifying the 'padding alist-key

[Trevor Daniels]

Mark Polesky wrote Thursday, December 09, 2010 3:15 PM


> Mark Polesky wrote:
> > 1)
> > padding - the minimum required amount of vertical
> > whitespace between two items, measured in staff-spaces.
> > When available, skylines are used in the spacing
> > calculation.
> >
> > 2)
> > padding - the minimum required amount of vertical
> > whitespace between the skylines of two items, measured in
> > staff-spaces.
>
>
> Carl Sorensen wrote:
> > I prefer 2.
>
> Trevor Daniels wrote:
> > 2, but is "skylines" explained anywhere in the docs?  If
> > it is, it is not indexed.
>
>
> Interesting.  I just assumed you'd both prefer #1, because
> IIUC most items don't have skylines for padding.  For
> example, do things like title/toplevel markups, lyrics, etc.
> have skylines?  If not, I think the wording of #1 is more
> accurate.

Well, it depends on how "skylines" is defined.  If it's
defined as a horizontal line at the extreme values of Y
for title, toplevel markups, lyrics, etc the second
wording is OK.

> Trevor: when I `git grep' for "skyline" in the Documentation
> directory, I get nothing, so to answer your question: no,
> skylines are not explained anywhere in the docs.

So we have free rein to describe it how we like :)

Trevor