On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 3:32 PM <lilypond-devel-requ...@gnu.org> wrote: > > Perhaps I'm the only one who feels this way, but I wish we would more > carefully distinguish between "duration" as a measure of *time* and > "length" as a measure of *space*. LilyPond deals in a crucial way with both > of these things. Musical events have a duration; they can be measured in > seconds (or fractions of a whole note). The physical dimensions of paper > (and distances between objects on the page) have a length; they can be > measured in centimeters, inches, points and the like. >
Unfortunately, "length" can also refer to time so is ambiguous at best. Why not "distance" as a measure of space instead? --- Christopher Carl Heckman
