Re: Issue 1585 in lilypond: LilyPond segfaults on beams with headless stencils

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        Labels: -Type-Defect -Priority-Critical Type-Enhancement Priority-Medium

Comment #5 on issue 1585 by percival.music.ca: LilyPond segfaults on beams  
with headless stencils
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1585

Following some discussion about a potential fix, let's give the following,  
historically-accurate, answer:
  Don't do that.


I'm shifting this to be a feature request instead:
In this case, it seems that the ideal behavior would be to have the stems
reach down to the asymptotic point to which stems converge as their note
heads get smaller and smaller (try overriding the notehead stencil to be
progressively smaller boxes and you'll wee what I mean).