Re: Fixes heights and pure heights of stems. (issue 4898044)

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:25 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:

> THE UGLY:
>
> Because this patch effects stem extents across the board, the regtest
> comparisons are nightmarish to check.  The layout probably does not
> change at all in most regtests (at least not to the naked eye), but
> because of the change in Y-extent, almost every regtest with stems comes
> back as having changed.  So, spotting regressions is very difficult.
> The files I list above are the only ones where I see a noteworthy
> change, and I believe all of these are for the better.

Someone on the team is running pixel by pixel comparisons, which will
correctly show differences.  You can also hack up the
output-distance.py script to ignore all Stem grobs (The grob name is
in the .signature file, so it should be pretty trivial).