Re: Issue 2085 in lilypond: Overriding stencil of StringNumber leads to "programming error" messages

[lilypond]

Comment #11 on issue 2085 by address@hidden: Overriding stencil of  
StringNumber leads to "programming error" messages
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2085

There are a number of cases in the manuals where stencils are just cleared  
out with ##f.  That's reasonably straightforward to remember, and we should  
make it work either consistently, or not at all.  I don't think that we  
should make it generally equivalent to point-stencil (even though that may  
be one possibility) since a point stencil still is placed with appropriate  
padding with relation to other elements, and other elements are placed with  
appropriate padding with relation to the point stencil.

For that reason, it seems to me that a point stencil would still be able to  
significantly alter the skyline of the object it is in.  And ##f should not  
do that.