Re: Non-quadratic form of whiteout

[Malte Meyn]

Am 16.09.18 um 16:18 schrieb Thomas Morley:
> The disadvantage of this approach is obvious as soon as thickness is increased.

That’s true but the function stencil-whiteout-outline (from 
scm/stencil.scm) takes not only a thickness argument but also three 
other arguments called color, angle-increments, radial-increments.

• color is used to make f. e. a “redout” instead of “whiteout”, useful 
for colored backgrounds.
• angle-increments (default 16) determines at which angles (default: 
multiples of 360°/16=22.5°) the white symbol should be printed.
• radial-increments (default 1) determines the number of copies between 
the original an “thickness away”.

Increasing radial-increments or angle-increments (or both, depending on 
the shape used) could reduce such problems. But I haven’t found a way 
how to do that as a user (\markup \override #'(angle-increments … seems 
not to be the right way). And of course depending on the shape one might 
need very many copies.