Re: #'stencil vs. #'transparent

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 02/28/2013 02:11 PM, Daniel Rosen wrote:
> I'm typesetting a piece of vocal music, and I want to have a melisma without a 
> slur being drawn. I tried \override Slur #'stencil = ##f, but when I compiled 
> it, the output appeared as if I had written \override Slur #'transparent = 
> ##t--in other words, it occupies space, contrary to the description of the 
> stencil property at 
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.16/Documentation/notation/visibility-of-objects. 
> Is this a bug?

Something similar happens if you set the stencil of a dynamic mark to ##f -- 
try:

  {
    c'4\< \once \override DynamicText #'stencil = ##f d'\f\> c'\! r |
    c'4\< d'\> c'\! r |
  }