Re: Proposed context property renaming

[Christopher Heckman]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 3:32 PM <lilypond-devel-request@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Perhaps I'm the only one who feels this way, but I wish we would more
> carefully distinguish between "duration" as a measure of *time* and
> "length" as a measure of *space*. LilyPond deals in a crucial way with both
> of these things. Musical events have a duration; they can be measured in
> seconds (or fractions of a whole note). The physical dimensions of paper
> (and distances between objects on the page) have a length; they can be
> measured in centimeters, inches, points and the like.
>

Unfortunately, "length" can also refer to time so is ambiguous at best.

Why not "distance" as a measure of space instead?

--- Christopher Carl Heckman