Re: Documentation on collision resolution

[Trevor Daniels]

Valentin Villenave wrote Saturday, December 12, 2009 6:04 PM
>

> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Trevor Daniels 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > """
> > > The half note and eighth note at the start of the second measure 
> > > are
> > > incorrectly merged because \mergeDifferentlyHeadedOn cannot
> > > successfully complete the merge when three or more notes line up 
> > > in
> > > the same column, and in this case a warning is given.
> > > "
> >
> > You're right, but it still seems unsatisfactory. In fact the 
> > merge _is_
> > completed when it shouldn't be. And the warning doesn't draw 
> > attention
> > to the incorrect merge; it says "ignoring too many clashing note 
> > columns",
> > something different entirely.
>
> Hmm. That would be a warning-nitpick then? Can you help me writing 
> the
> report? :)

It's not that simple.  Playing with the example in the Learning 
Manual at
http://kainhofer.com/~lilypond/Documentation/learning/real-music-example.html#real-music-example
shows that a warning is _not_ always given.  The warning depends 
just
on which voices the notes are in, not on anything to do with 
merging.  If
the three notes are in three separate voices, as they are in the LM,
no warning appears.

So I think this needs a doc change rather than a bug report.  I'll 
do that.

Trevor