Re: Proposed context property renaming

[Saul Tobin]

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.heckman@asu.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 9:17 AM Saul Tobin <saul.james.tobin@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
>
>