Re: ambitus: special handling of small ambits' lines (issue4609041)

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On Jun 21, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Janek Warchoł wrote:

> 2011/6/21 address@hidden <address@hidden>:
>> What I meant is that every time you use a magic number (i.e. 0.35),
>> consider making it user-tweakable unless you are absolutely sure
>> that there is no utility in changing that number.
> 
> Ah, you meant this! :)
> well, i think that 0.35 in (ly:grob-property grob 'gap 0.35) means "if
> you have trouble reading gap property, use 0.35", so it's only kind of
> default value.
> As for other numbers, i'm sure that making them user-tweakable will be
> overkill. They simply are coefficients in a function that does a very
> nitpicky tweak; the function (as a whole) can be controlled by
> gap-stretchability and i'm sure it's enough.
> Personally i suppose that noone in the world - except me - will ever
> care about gap-stretchability value, leave alone the coefficients in
> the funciton :)

Sorry sorry - I mis-mis-spoke (I should have read my previous post).  What I 
meant is that these values could be wrapped up into a details property.  The 
argument that user-tweakability is overkill isn't necessarily a bad thing - 
check out the `details' property for the Slur and Beam grobs.  By creating a 
similar details list, it'd be more LilyPond-esque, which makes the code easier 
to read (and, on the off chance that someone actually wants to modify this 
(which is admittedly rare), they'll be able to w/o having to change the source).

Cheers,
MS