Re: Strange rest dots behaviour - bug?

[Thomas Scharkowski]

Hi Erik,

I looked at "testrest.dvi" with MikTex Yap and get the same output.

Thomas
> On Sunday 08 May 2005 19.38, Thomas Scharkowski wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > sorry for the long example, but I could not shorten more.
> > In bar 9 and 10 of the attached example the rests in voice "Bass"
> > are shifted, but the dots remain at the default position. If I
> > delete or shorten voice "Middle" the problem disappears.
> 
> Looks like a nasty bug. I tried it with a recent 2.5.x version as well
> as with 2.4.2 and 2.4.6, and the problem doesn't appear there.
> 
> The next version 2.6 will soon be released, and the problem _might_
> have been fixed there. If you upgrade to 2.6, please tell us again if
> anything similar ever occurs again.
> 
> Erik
> 
> (btw: the problem could be related to the ps->pdf generation process,
> I have seen displaced objects before. Could you check what the .ps or
> .dvi output look like? If they look good, a solution to your problem
> could be to download a newer or older version of ghostscript.)