Re: Issue 2376 in lilypond: Automatic footnotes on \null markups causes unexpected results

[lilypond]

Comment #5 on issue 2376 by address@hidden: Automatic footnotes on \null  
markups causes unexpected results
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2376

This code matches up with how stencils are represented internally and how  
the code uses then in general.  One could, for example, use the same  
stencil for every single whole note.  However, a function is called that  
returns copies of this stencil.  In general, stencils are always created  
from scratch.  I don't entirely follow what you're saying as it seems like  
it is getting into issues of program design that are out of my league, but  
given how LilyPond works and what people's expectations of things are,  
having "empty-stencil" be a function that returns an empty-stencil seems to  
make more sense than using the same stencil every time (for the same reason  
as the whole-note example given above).