Thank you! I'm not sure if such a question can be answered, but is it "best
practice" to use one or the other version?

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Br. Samuel Springuel <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Visually they might turn out to be equivalent, but they are semantically
> different and thus the visual equivalence would be fragile.
>
> > (dhhvGE//fvED) (,4) (ce/fgED//ffd)
>
> This consists of three syllables: \GreSyllable \GreBarSyllable
> \GreSyllable.  As a result you will get intersyllable spacing before and
> after the bar.  Since the middle syllable is a dominican bar without any
> text attached, the spacing around it is governed by `bar@dominican
> @standalone@notext` which defaults to 0.2323 cm.  The rubber component is
> governed by `bar@rubber` and defaults to plus 0.22787 cm minus 0.02 cm.
>
> > (dhhvGE//fvED,4ce/fgED//ffd)
>
> This is a single syllable (\GreSyllable), so the spacing around the
> dominican bar in the middle is governed by `bar@dominican`.  The default
> value here is 0.1823 cm plus 0.22787 cm minus 0.00469 cm.  Since this is
> different from `bar@dominican@standalone@notext` the two are not really
> visually equivalent (though the naked eye probably won't catch the 0.05 cm
> difference).  Further, since their rubbers are different, they will stretch
> and shrink differently to make line breaks pretty (something you won't see
> when just running them on their own).
>
> It is only if `bar@dominican@standalone@notext + bar@rubber` and
> `bar@dominican` are the same that the two expressions will always be
> visually equivalent.
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> Washington, DC
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