Re: empty-stencil and point-stencil

[Carl D. Sorensen]

On 6/16/09 1:51 PM, "Mark Polesky" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> 
> Trevor, could you add a bit to your recent LM 4.3.1 patch about
> empty-stencil and point-stencil? They are suitable substitutes for
> #'stencil = ##f.
> 
> \override <grob> #'stencil = #empty-stencil
> \override <grob> #'stencil = #point-stencil
> 
> See
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-06/msg00332.html
> for a very recent discussion. I actually don't fully understand
> the subtleties of discerning when one is more appropriate than
> the other, but it sounds like you might!

I don't understand why empty-stencil has a non-zero extent; that means it
takes up space.

I believe that point-stencil should be used to replace ##f, because we want
to take up no space, and point-stencil has zero extent.

Thanks,

Carl