Re: bar-line problems

[Valentin Villenave]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:24 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> That being said: if someone wants to investigate further and a
> workaround can be found that causes the same result on correct systems
> and does not trigger the problem on evince, that would be worth
> including.

It has been made clear in the past that evince is not our friend:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2007-11/msg00135.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-09/msg00852.html


> It has been my experience as a package maintainer that after the
> hundredth time of putting the blame where it belongs, it gets tiresome.
> Versions with this bug, even if it gets fixed immediately, will be
> around for years, and dealing with the reports is a resource drain.

Ditto, that's already been discussed -- and dismissed by Han-Wen:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2007-07/msg00075.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2007-07/msg00506.html

(Which led our late developer Rune to tell me once: "The first rule of
LilyPond is: Han-Wen always wins :-)" )

Cheers,
Valentin