Re: repeated flags

[james]

> On Sep 20, 2015, at 11:37 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> james <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I've recently had a problem with flags being repeated in my printouts. The 
>> pdf file is
>> fine, but for some reason, when I print it, some of the flags are repeated. 
>> I've tried
>> this on different files and on different printers with similar results.
>> *
>> *
>> Is this a known issue? Is there anything I can do about it?
> 
> Well, this is a combination of an overprinting and a positioning issue.
> I have no idea about the positioning issue.  But the overprinting issue
> might be
> 
> commit 555eba6c5d21610b1ad87a68a4304946212fb69d
> Author: David Nalesnik <address@hidden>
> Date:   Mon Aug 24 09:13:31 2015 -0500
> 
>    Don't print redundant flags in chords
> 
>    This patch adds a check to lily/stem-engraver.cc which ensures that only
>    one Flag grob appears for a given Stem grob.  Previously, a flag was 
> created
>    and printed for each note of a chord.
> 
> resolved in 2.19.26.  So you are likely not to see this problem in this
> form in future.  But the positioning of the single flag (or other stuff
> then related to it) might still be bad.  Maybe a font metric problem?
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup


Oh, I probably should have mentioned I'm using 2.18.2. But it sounds like 
you're saying if I upgrade to 2.19.26, I shouldn't see the problem.

Thanks,
James
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