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Re: Excessive type-strictness?
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Excessive type-strictness? |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:38:35 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
James Harkins <address@hidden> writes:
> In lilypond 2.15.36, I just hit an issue where this override caused
> lilypond to exit with code 1.
Exit 1 is a regular error, so you should have seen an error message.
> \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #1
>
> Changing it to this allowed compilation to succeed:
>
> \once \override NoteColumn #'force-hshift = #1.0
>
> I tried to make a MCE but both overrides worked in that context.
I have taken a thorough look at the code using the shift, and there is
nothing looking suspicious.
I suspect you may have had something like a \version string mismatch, or
some misspelling, like l or I instead of 1, or a non-breaking space ( )
somewhere where it does not belong.
> I just wanted to ask if anyone else had seen anything like this. For
> the bug squad folks and David: I do not intend this as a complete bug
> report; please do not chastise me for failing to include a tiny
> example or whatnot. I'm only asking for others' experiences at this
> point.
Not likely anything of any relevance to you.
--
David Kastrup