PMA <peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu> writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> PMA<peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu> writes: >> >>> Jim Long wrote: >>>> I suppose that, by extension, this means that a factor of #0.0 >>>> means the layout would have no spacing at all, and all glyphs >>>> would be engraved over the top of each other in one big blob, and >>>> a factor of #-1.0 would mean that the glyphs are engraved >>>> normally, but spaced right-to-left. For the sake of >>>> reasonableness/sanity, perhaps Lily might just disallow factors< >>>> or perhaps even<= 0, unless someone can make a compelling use >>>> case for non-positive spacing factors. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> lilypond-user mailing list >>>> lilypond-user@gnu.org >>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >>>> >>> Unless we'd prefer to make>0 expand, >>> <0 contract, and =0 change nothing). >> >> And to get right-to-left, you then set the value to i*pi. And >> bottom-to-top is i*pi/2. >> > I presume this reveals my thought as clueless.
Then whoever designed font-size must be equally clueless. > Apparently the parameter _must_ function as a factor. Sorry. Don't see how this follows. I was just making some mathematically inspired fun but it was not really relevant. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
