Survey: Who uses legacy/old options?

[David Chiang]

Hello all, there are a number of options that are designated “legacy” or “old” in the source code or documentation. I’m wondering how widely these options are still used. If no one uses them, perhaps they should be deprecated and eventually removed.

(1) Old bar spacing algorithm

This is activated by '\gresetbarspacing{old}'. The default has been \gresetbarspacing{new} since 2016.

(2) Vertical spacing of text

When there are notes below the staff, the text is pushed down by a certain amount per half-step. By default, this amount is simply half the distance between staff/ledger lines. But it can be changed using '\gresetnoteadditionalspacelinestext{manual}'. The default has been ‘\gresetnoteadditionalspacelinestext{automatic}' since 2021.

(3) Legacy oriscus orientation

This is activated by ‘oriscus-orientation: legacy’ in the GABC file. The default has been to not use the legacy rules since 2016. The documentation has called the legacy rules “deprecated” since 2017.

If there are any others I’ve missed, please point those out as well. Thank you!

[Matthias Bry]

A quick search into the code of the Nocturnale Romanum project shows that we do not use any of these features.

In Christo,

MB

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[Matthew Roth]

I don’t use them. When I find the bar placement infelicitous I have a few solutions (either resetting the offset before and after or using <clear>); I used to use the old algorithm for a one-off score, but in reality it tends to produce even more hard-to-tweak unwelcome outcomes, and when you have multiple scores it’s not worth it.

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