Re: Slight spanner problem

[Doug Asherman]

Erik Sandberg wrote:
> On Saturday 08 May 2004 23.39, Doug Asherman wrote:
>
> > I'm not quite sure how to describe this: if it's not clear, please let
> > me know.
>
> ...
>
> > Also, when I'm compiling the source, I get:
> > "programming error: round filled box vertical extent smaller than blot;
> > decreasing blot"
>
>
> This certainly sounds like a bug, when Lilypond spits out such messages it 
> means that _something_ is wrong internally.
>
> Could you send a piece of music that demonstrates this? (fairly small examples 
> are appreciated, but big examples are ok too if you don't know how to isolate 
> it)

Sure. I've changed one of the examples from the "Tips & Tricks" section 
of the manual to display this behavior. It's appended at the end of this 
message.

At first I thought I was misunderstanding the \skip directive, but now I 
think that isn't necessarily so (though I certainly could be using it 
wrongly elsewhere :-)).

Here's the example.

I'm using Lilypond 2.2.1.

\version "2.2.0"
\paper {
    linewidth = 160 \mm
  \context {
    \LyricsContext \consists "Bar_engraver"
    \override BarLine #'transparent = ##t
  }
}
\renameinput "lyrics-skip-notes.ly"

\header
{
  title = "Skip The Dog"
}


% shorthand for Skip Lyric
sl = \notes { \skip 2 }

\version "2.2.0"
\score {
  <<
  \context Voice = "A"  \notes  {c2 c c c}
  \lyricsto "A" \context Lyrics=A \lyrics { foo __ \sl \sl bar }
  \lyricsto "A" \context Lyrics=B \lyrics { foo -- \sl baz bar }
  \lyricsto "A" \context Lyrics=C \lyrics { foo -- baz -- baaz bar }
  >>
}