Re: Alignment bug?

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In message <address@hidden>, Mats 
Bengtsson <address@hidden> writes
> Sorry to sound so negative, but even if you found a bug in version 2.6, 
> nobody will care to fix it, since we have a new stable version
> 2.8.

That's fair enough, provided it *has* been spotted and fixed. I know 
Cygwin lags the latest, it's just that if that's the latest on Cygwin I 
would hope for a bit of help. I'll have to try the native Windows 
version. I'd much rather be bleeding edge on linux but that's easier 
said than done...
> In my earlier answer and so far in this answer, I haven't looked too
> carefully at your exact question, but just tried to explain the general
> problems of using older versions. However, I happened to have an 
> installation of version 2.6 available and when I tried your example, I 
> noticed that LilyPond writes out a warning:
>
> type check for `self-alignment-X' failed; value `#<Music FingerEvent>' 
> must be of type `number'
>
> and I happen to recognize that you have indeed found an old bug, namely
> that you couldn't use #left as an argument value. However, you can use
> #LEFT instead.

Thanks very much. Confirmation it's an (old) bug, plus a work-around :-)

Cheers
Wol
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