Re: empty markup causes text overlapping in lilypond >2.17

[David Kastrup]

Eugene Cormier <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> > Anyway, for the purposes of the bug list, you should formulate your
>> > demonstration as a very short inline code snippet.
>> 
>> That would be very much preferable from having to scrape some large
>> piece of code off an HTML page where it is embedded as some JavaScript
>> string inside of JavaScript code or whatever.
>
>
> agreed, but the problem is that to have the overlap happen we need enough 
> 'other material on the page that forces the 'squeeze'

I don't see how that necessitates posting some HTML page.  Regarding the
"enough other material" angle, something like

\score { \repeat unfold 20000 c'1 }

should be plenty.

> Anyways, \markup \null does work perfectly, I just wanted to let
> people know that this behavior is happening

Without anything suitable for reproducing the problem, this is sort of
anecdotal knowledge which severely reduces the chances of somebody
actually working on it.

-- 
David Kastrup