Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 4103 in lilypond: Ottava dash-fraction = #0 produces dotted line instead of 'no line'

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Comment #1 on issue 4103 by address@hidden: Ottava dash-fraction = #0 produces  
dotted line instead of 'no line'
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4103

In the description of "line-interface" I read

   For 'dashed-line', the length of the dashes is tuned with
'dash-fraction'.  If the latter is set to 0, a dotted line is produced.

So I think this is mostly a documentation issue.  However, I would expect  
that for dash-fraction being 0, the output is indeed a dotted line only  
consisting of line caps.  So for the line-cap style of cut-off I'd indeed  
expect to see nothing, for square I'd expect to see squares, and for  
rounded I'd expect to see circles).

But the resulting "dots" still seem longish in nature, implying a non-zero  
line length.

So we definitely have a Documentation issue here (we have conflicting  
statements between the documentation for line-interface and dash-fraction  
proper).  We might also have sort of an actually mismatch of definition and  
precise semantics, but "dotted" would still seem to cover the present  
behavior.

So for now, I am marking this as a documentation issue.

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