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Documentation errors
From: |
Han-Wen Nienhuys |
Subject: |
Documentation errors |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:51:52 +0200 |
address@hidden writes:
> In Section 4.6.3 "Horizontal Spacing", it says
>
> "Normally, shortest-duration-space is set to 1.2, which is the width of
> a note head, and shortest-duration-space is set to 2.0, meaning that the
> shortest note gets 2 NHW (i.e. 2 times shortest-duration-space) of
> space. For normal notes, this space is always counted from the left edge
> of the symbol, so the shortest notes are generally followed by one NHW
> of space."
>
> I guess that a number of the references to "shortest-duration-space"
> should be replaced by references to "spacing-increment" or some other
> property, but I don't dare try to correct this mess, since I'm not
> 100% certain about what you really mean.
no, it's correct. shortest-duration-space is wrongly named; it is a
factor. Space is
( log2( shortest-playing-duration/shortest-duration)
+ shortest-duration-space) * spacing-increment
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Han-Wen Nienhuys | address@hidden | http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen