Re: "Assertion failed!" errors

[Thomas Morley]

2015-06-13 20:22 GMT+02:00 Daniel Rosen <address@hidden>:
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>> From: Thomas Morley [mailto:address@hidden
>> Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 2:04 PM
>> To: Daniel Rosen
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Subject: Re: "Assertion failed!" errors
>>
>> Example #1 gives a warning in 2.18.2, aborting in 2.19.21
>>
>> Though it's not a bug but expected behaviour, because a whole note does
>> not have a stem.
>
> Changing #'Stem to #'NoteHead allows the code to compile error-free 
> (thanks—not sure why neither anyone on the user list nor I spotted that), but 
> that doesn't explain why it was aborting with #'Stem, instead of compiling 
> with warnings and weird-looking output as it did in 2.19.20.

I think David K explained it here
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2015-06/msg00297.html
and how to proceed with the problems arising.

And, well, 2.19.21 is a devel-version, surprises may happen ;)
>
>> Example #2 gives no error or warning here for 2.18.2 and 2.19.21 on LINUX
>> 64bit.
>> pdf is correct.
>
> Looking over the user list threads that I referenced in my original report, I 
> see that I was advised to report these as a bug, but that no one ever 
> actually explicitly stated that they'd replicated the issue. Are you (or 
> perhaps someone else) able to try to do so on a Windows PC?

Sorry, no windows available here.

Cheers,
  Harm