I note that there are some grid intervals that are not available, for example 2mm. There’s some kind of rounding going on that prohibits these values.
More seriously, there is a bug in the spinner arrows. The value of 1.9mm cannot be increased with the arrow. I have seen other odd behaviours here as well, which may all be linked to the rounding that is taking place.
There is indeed a rounding problem in the spin box control used in this (and a couple of other dialogs). It’s all a bit boring and technical (and is due to the absence of a spin box that can handle floating point values in Qt Quick/QML) but you can always type the desired value, and it will be produced correctly.
Along these lines, I can’t seem to set grid resolution at 1mm. When I try to type it, it defaults to .9mm. Curious about why this is.
Thanks as always…
Mandatory comic:
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2013-06-05
I think Dorico uses God’s own unit, the point, internally.
1 mm is 2.8346456693 points, but it seems to round to 2 decimal places (in points).
Using 2.83 points seems reasonably accurate. You can type “2.83pt”, even if your app unit is millimetres.
Ha. Exactly.
Thanks so much for the explanation, @benwiggy.
Part of my desire for 1mm resolution is to reduce (or eliminate) the need for conversion during layout. This is particularly true for non-music items. I get a little turned around sometimes with converting from points to mm to inches, etc.
Tips always welcome.
Thank you again.
