Re: [Lilypond-auto] Issue 4418 in lilypond: Patch: add stencil-whiteout-outline function

[lilypond]

Comment #19 on issue 4418 by address@hidden: Patch: add  
stencil-whiteout-outline function
https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=4418

Mail by Karol Majewski on lilypond-user:

Subject: What happened to whiteout?
Message-ID: <address@hidden>

For some reason this gives horrible output:

=========BEGIN============

\version "2.19.22"

one = {
  \clef treble \key c \major \time 2/4 \tempo "Andantino"
  a'2 _\markup { \whiteout \pad-markup #0.5 { \dynamic p \italic "dolce" }  
} a'2
}

two = {
  \clef bass \key c \major \time 2/4
  c2 c2
}

\score {
  \new PianoStaff <<
    \new Staff = "one" \one
    \new Staff = "two" \two
  >>
}

=======END===========

Taking a look at the results makes me skeptical that we are doing people a  
favor by making the current implementation the default.  Maybe we should  
reconsider.  The staggered whiteout is pretty sure to _never_ lead to  
pleasing results for curved material like letters whenever there is  
significant overlap with solid objects.  And when there isn't, it is not  
much of a difference to the box whiteout.

So at least until we have the engineering chops for a smooth outline (which  
will more likely than not require digging around in the C++ code to get a  
reasonable solution), it does not seem to make a lot of sense to offer this  
as the primary solution.

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