Re: Setting spacing alist key individually breaks annotate-spacing

[Ralph Palmer]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Mark Polesky <address@hidden>wrote:

> \version "2.13.36"
>
> \paper {
>  annotate-spacing = ##t
>
>  % this style works only if annotate-spacing is off:
>  top-system-spacing #'minimum-distance = #20
>
>  % this style works whether annotate-spacing is on
>  % or off, but is not a valid workaround since it
>  % unsets any alist keys that were previously set:
>  %   top-system-spacing = #'((space . 5))
> }
>
> { c'' }
>
>
> * * * * * * * * * *
>
> Here's the error message:
>
> Drawing systems...
> [...]/scm/stencil.scm:667:41:
> In procedure assoc in expression (assoc-get sym spacing-spec ...):
> [...]/scm/stencil.scm:667:41:
> Wrong type argument in position 2 (expecting association list):
>  ((minimum-distance . 20) . #<variable 7f0fed213210 value: #0#>)
>
> shell returned 1
>
> * * * * * * * * * *
>
> Thanks.
> - Mark
>

Greetings, Mark -

This has been accepted as Issue 1338:

http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1338

(As an aside: I do not understand the issue, but I have no reason to reject
it. If someone else with greater knowledge or more experience knows a reason
why it should be rejected, please respond.)

Sincerely,

Ralph