Re: Optical spacing fails at tight situations

[Keith OHara]

James Bailey <derhindemith <at> googlemail.com> writes:
> 
> Is this unexpected behavior? Does the ragged-right or /noBreak affect this? 
> Clearly the difference is there. My question is, is it a feature, or a bug?

I did not realize that LilyPond corrected for the optical illusions due to note 
pitches, for notes with the /same/ stem direction, but now I see it in the 
Essay.  

Apparently LilyPond gives up doing this optical correction when the spacing is 
too tight.  In the example Jan gives, she gives up when optical spacing appears 
to be still possible, so what Jan reports would be a minor bug, not feature.