[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > > MusiXTeX provides two spacing methods \arithmeticskipscale and
> > > \geometricskipscale. I think the names tell all. One of the methods
> >
> > way way back , we used to have a geometric scale (distances increase
> > multiplicatively, a halfnote gets 1.5 times the distance of a quarter
> > note), and it looked awful: the short notes don't get enough space,
> > the long ones too much. We changed to arithmetic spacing in 0.1.9
>
> way way back :-)
>
> It's pretty good to have both. And the factor must not be 1.5; and
> it can be changed whereever you want.
I think we used the golden ratio, and I am sure that it was
user-settable. All spacing tables that I've seen so far have
arithmetic spacing. Moreover, geometric spacing has been in lily for
more than a year afterwards (I guess), and I have never seen anyone
use it.
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