Re: shapeII debugging

[David Nalesnik]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 2:38 PM, David Nalesnik
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> My ‘minimal’ example file is the attached one. Last time I tried to get
>> to the source of the problem I found this tracker issue [1] and came to
>> the conclusion that a fix would require integration of shapeII deep in
>> the C++ LilyPond code to circumvent the really fundamental problems
>> hinted there.
>> Presumably the difference between your user experiences and mine has to
>> do with the bug only (?) occuring with the (head x x) option.
>> And certainly I agree that it would be marvelous to see the
>> functionality in LilyPond proper, with this bug fixed.
>>
>
> I would suggest removing the head functionality for the time being so
> something can get into LilyPond proper without too much effort.
>

Oh, that wasn't clear.  Patch LilyPond with what of \shapeII works;
keep the function as-is in openlilylib.