Re: old-straight-flag + smaller Stem.thickness gives no output and huge overflow

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Mike Solomon <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 27 mai 2013, at 19:34, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Karol Majewski <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> The following code gives:
>>>>> warning: cannot fit music on page: overflow is 1096.382978
>>>>> and no output. Perhaps it's a bug?
>>> 
>>> 6f13ef4a292625c1a9d528ac88aec98071ba6388 is the first bad commit
>>> commit 6f13ef4a292625c1a9d528ac88aec98071ba6388
>>> Author: Mike Solomon <address@hidden>
>>> Date:   Fri Mar 22 07:29:57 2013 +0100
>>> 
>>>    Permits all positive and zero-length buildings in skylines (issue 3161)
>>
>> Ahhhhh crap. I'll look into it this week.
>
> This should prove interesting.  The condition for triggering this
> problem seem so utterly arbitrary.  For what it is worth, the overflow
> on my computer is
> warning: cannot fit music on page: overflow is 1636.348835
> namely quite different.
>
> So both the way to trigger this bug as well as the concrete output seem
> _way_ arbitrary.

It gets more interesting.  Manually "bisecting" on the value gives me an
overflow of

warning: cannot fit music on page: overflow is 935.595183

for

    \override Stem.thickness = #1.20005

-- 
David Kastrup