Re: shapeII debugging

[David Nalesnik]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Andrew Bernard
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On 24 December 2016 at 07:42, David Nalesnik <address@hidden>
> wrote:
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>> Oh, that wasn't clear.  Patch LilyPond with what of \shapeII works;
>> keep the function as-is in openlilylib.
>
>
> Essential. I depend on the (h x x) function hugely in my code. [And it works
> fine for me, so this is an interesting issue.]
>

Much of \shapeII could be included, but the (h x x) function is
broken.  I've noticed the problem too. (I may have mentioned this in
review comments on GitHub.)

There's a statement in the Contributor's Guide about rejecting broken
code on principle. So, I'm simply proposing that, should someone want
to put forward a patch, they should remove the problematic parts.  The
(h x x) would be in openlilylib, usable to anyone, and LilyPond proper
can be updated when it's fixed.

Like Simon, I fear that the notehead-alignment stuff will be difficult
to tackle, and we shouldn't hold up improving LilyPond against the
possibly remote day when the issue is fixed.

Best,
David