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Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions
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David Kastrup |
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Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions |
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Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:30:30 +0200 |
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Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> writes:
> On 10/7/10 7:51 AM, "Valentin Villenave" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I think I'd prefer desired-distance to optimal-distance. optimal distance
>>> is what the algorithms actually end up with, as a tradeoff between desired
>>> distance and the amount of stuff on a page.
>>
>> How about requested- rather than desired-?
>
> requested- or base- (like David suggested).
>
> I like base-; it's shorter to type, and it still carries the right
> connotation.
It is also consistent with the naming of the baseline-skip property. It
would be more so if that were named base-lineskip (as I thought it
were). Since that is actually a reminiscence of the TeX spacing trio
\baselineskip, \lineskiplimit, \lineskip, this hyphenation would have
made more sense to me.
However, looking at the program code of TeX, I find the Pascal constant
name constituents baseline_skip, line_skip and line_skip_limit. Quite
in line with the hyphenation of Lilypond's property names.
Bah. I still find base-distance a nice name and somewhat mnemonically
related to baseline-skip.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, (continued)
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Mark Polesky, 2010/10/06
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Carl Sorensen, 2010/10/06
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Trevor Daniels, 2010/10/06
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Alexander Kobel, 2010/10/07
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Carl Sorensen, 2010/10/07
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Valentin Villenave, 2010/10/07
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Carl Sorensen, 2010/10/07
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Alexander Kobel, 2010/10/07
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions,
David Kastrup <=
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- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Graham Percival, 2010/10/07
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Carl Sorensen, 2010/10/07
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Mark Polesky, 2010/10/08
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Xavier Scheuer, 2010/10/08
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Mark Polesky, 2010/10/08
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, David Kastrup, 2010/10/08
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Mark Polesky, 2010/10/09
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Carl Sorensen, 2010/10/09
- Re: names of vertical spacing dimensions, Joe Neeman, 2010/10/09