Re: Why has `NonMusicalPaperColumn` a width?
> I fully agree. However, what I don't understand is why a zero-width > non-musical paper column has a non-zero ideal spring distance. > Additionally, this 0.5 value is hard-coded and undocumented, > apparently present in the code since the very beginning. Well, it's not zero-width, since it contains the rehearsal mark. I do agree that the hardcoded 0.5 in `spacing-basic.cc` is suboptimal. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Why has `NonMusicalPaperColumn` a width?
>> Why does the `NonMusicalPaperColumn` grob have a width of 0.5 >> units? Where it is defined? > > Are you referring to the blue arrow from the second-to-last > non-musical column to the last rest? That's not a width, it's the > [ideal] distance to the last rest's musical column. Yes, it was sloppily formulated, sorry. > Also, why would non-musical columns have no width in general? Since > they're containers, is it not logical for them to have the same > width as the set of grobs they contain? I fully agree. However, what I don't understand is why a zero-width non-musical paper column has a non-zero ideal spring distance. Additionally, this 0.5 value is hard-coded and undocumented, apparently present in the code since the very beginning. Werner
Re: Why has `NonMusicalPaperColumn` a width?
> it's the minimum distance to the last Correction: the *ideal* distance signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Why has `NonMusicalPaperColumn` a width?
> Why does the `NonMusicalPaperColumn` grob have a width of 0.5 units? Where it > is defined? Are you referring to the blue arrow from the second-to-last non-musical column to the last rest? That's not a width, it's the minimum distance to the last rest's musical column. Also, why would non-musical columns have no width in general? Since they're containers, is it not logical for them to have the same width as the set of grobs they contain? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Why has `NonMusicalPaperColumn` a width?
Consider this example
```tex
\version "2.19.2"
music = { r4 r r \mark III r }
{ \music }
{ \override Score.RehearsalMark.non-musical = #'()
\music }
\layout {
\context {
\Score
\override NonMusicalPaperColumn.stencil = #ly:paper-column::print
\override PaperColumn.stencil = #ly:paper-column::print } }
```
Why does the `NonMusicalPaperColumn` grob have a width of 0.5 units?
Where it is defined? And where does the additional 0.25 units between
the rest and the non-musical paper column come from?
Werner
