Re: bar-line problems

[David Kastrup]

Neil Puttock <address@hidden> writes:

> 2009/11/2 David Biddiscombe <address@hidden>:
>
>> I emailed the lilypond-user address with some requests for help and
>> mentioned this problem too: Daniel Hulme thought the fault might be only
>> in the PDF image, but it's in the printout too; Marc Hohl wrote that it
>> was a known bug of evince, not lilypond;
>
> It's most likely to be your PDF viewer, since the settings for
> barlines haven't changed since 2.4.6.
>
> If I view your PDF using evince, the barlines are still quite thick,
> despite the 'hair-thickness override; furthermore, the printout is
> also faulty.  On the other hand, using okular, both image and printout
> have very faint barlines (and the default appearance with BarLine
> overrides removed is fine).

That being said: if someone wants to investigate further and a
workaround can be found that causes the same result on correct systems
and does not trigger the problem on evince, that would be worth
including.

It has been my experience as a package maintainer that after the
hundredth time of putting the blame where it belongs, it gets tiresome.
Versions with this bug, even if it gets fixed immediately, will be
around for years, and dealing with the reports is a resource drain.

-- 
David Kastrup