I meant that in Lilypond's type terminology, properties with the name width typically take a value that is a Scheme interval (i.e. a pair of numbers). Using the word width to name properties that take a single numerical value for a physical distance would be potentially confusing for similar reasons to duration vs. musicLength.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 5:37 PM Christopher Heckman < christopher.heck...@asu.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 9:17 AM Saul Tobin <saul.james.to...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Doesn't width typically refer to a pair of numbers? > > > > No; semantically, you can only talk about the width (or length) of *an > object*; what you're looking at is *the distance between* two numbers > (and hence a pair of numbers). > > --- Christopher Carl Heckman > >
