On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 1:20 PM, m...@apollinemike.com <m...@apollinemike.com> wrote: >> You realize that you may end up in an infinite loop for (rare) >> degenerate cases, right? If anything, you should stop after the 2nd >> pass. > > Good point - I can make the # of passes in the loop a variable w/ the default > as 2. > > However, for now, would you agree that the two-pass solution is better than > the alternative (too-wide / too-narrow spacing)? Although I don't have much > feedback for where this would be useful, the one person who has given this > code a spin (Bertrand) and who is pretty invested in all things footnote > seems to like this system over a one-pass alternative (I'm not putting words > into your mouth, am I, Bertrand?).
Technically I much prefer the 1 pass solution, although it requires constraints on how the marks are formatted (with padding space for small numbers.) -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
