Re: Problems with Internals manual

[Aaron Hill]

On 2020-06-17 1:35 am, Peter Toye wrote:
> Robin,
>
> Thanks. Fair enough. I guessed and experimented and got the result
> that I wanted. But I'm not quite sure how I managed it!
>
> A problem I had with minimum-X-extent is that it's a pair, but the
> description describes it as a distance, which I'd have thought was a
> single number!

Hmm.

====
minimum-X-extent (pair of numbers)
  Minimum size of an object in X dimension, measured in staff-space 
units.
====

I see no mention of "distance", but "size" might often be thought of as 
a singular value.  In reality, extents are closer to "bounds" than 
"size".  While the docs are pretty clear about the value being a pair of 
numbers, perhaps we should update the extent-related properties to use 
"bounds" as opposed to "size".


-- Aaron Hill