From 433cb52efae48fbc85f9df07dadc1dfa536c0f7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Polesky Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:43:55 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Doc: NR 4.1.4: Clarify 'padding in spacing alists. --- Documentation/notation/spacing.itely | 8 ++++---- scm/define-grob-properties.scm | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/notation/spacing.itely b/Documentation/notation/spacing.itely index 8a9f1d61d6..89810f6dad 100644 --- a/Documentation/notation/spacing.itely +++ b/Documentation/notation/spacing.itely @@ -423,12 +423,12 @@ of the two items, when compressing is in effect. Values for meaningful, since the resulting distance will never be less than @code{padding.} +@c TODO: explain skylines somewhere and xref to it from here. + @item @code{padding} -- the minimum required amount of unobstructed -vertical whitespace between two items, measured in staff-spaces. -This can be thought of as the minimum height of an unobstructed -(invisible) rectangle that extends from the leftmost to the -rightmost point of the combined items. +vertical whitespace between the bounding boxes (or skylines) of +the two items, measured in staff-spaces. @item @code{stretchability} -- a unitless measure of the dimension's diff --git a/scm/define-grob-properties.scm b/scm/define-grob-properties.scm index 7f47363531..36c8954123 100644 --- a/scm/define-grob-properties.scm +++ b/scm/define-grob-properties.scm @@ -797,8 +797,8 @@ of the two items, when compressing is in effect. @item @code{padding} -- the minimum required amount of unobstructed -vertical whitespace between the two items, measured in -staff-spaces. +vertical whitespace between the bounding boxes (or skylines) of +the two items, measured in staff-spaces. @item @code{stretchability} -- a unitless measure of the dimension's -- 2.39.2