Re: Improbable offset for stencil

[Thomas Morley]

‪Am Sa., 20. Juli 2024 um 11:34 Uhr schrieb ‫Yotam Medini יותם מדיני‬‎
<yotam.medini@gmail.com>:‬
>
> Werner & Jean - thanks to both of you for your explanations.
>
> Since debugging and understanding Scheme/Guile code
> is beyond my current capabilities, I will not be able to provide
> a correct fix for footer placement.
>
> -- yotam
>
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 1:39 AM Jean Abou Samra <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
>
> > Le samedi 20 juillet 2024 à 00:31 +0300, Yotam Medini יותם מדיני a écrit :
> > > Another fix attempt is attached.
> >
> >
> > Thank you for putting the effort to write a patch. However, this
> > patch is essentially papering over the problem. Translating a stencil
> > by ±inf isn't correct and should be logged; instead the code that
> > places the footer on the page should be changed to detect this
> > situation and do something sensible (whatever that may be; one
> > could look at how e.g. \markup \column handles empty vertical
> > extents and mimick that).
> >
> >
> >

This is now
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6731
Proposed fix at
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2386

Cheers,
  Harm