Re: old-straight-flag + smaller Stem.thickness gives no output and huge overflow

[David Kastrup]

Karol Majewski <address@hidden> writes:

> The following code gives:
> warning: cannot fit music on page: overflow is 1096.382978
> and no output. Perhaps it's a bug?
>
> \version "2.17.19"
>
> \layout {
>   \context {
>     \Score
>     \override Stem.thickness = #1.2
>     \override Flag.stencil = #old-straight-flag
> }
> }
>
> {
> c'16 r r d' c' r r d' c' r r d' c' r r d'
> c' r r d' c' r r d' c' r r d' c' r r d'
> c' r r d' c' r r d' c' r r d' c' r r d'
> }
>
> When I set Stem.thickness to default (1.3) everything is OK.
>
> Version 2.16.2 gives valid output regardless of Stem.thickness value.

Looks like a really scary bug.  2.17.12 seems to have this still work.
This would have seemed like a really strong argument against the spacing
changes I just committed.  Except that this problem was introduced
several versions before them.  Bisecting now.

-- 
David Kastrup