bug with stem-shorten property

[Han-Wen]

address@hidden writes:
> 
> This is CVS 2002-07-09 11:33.
> 
> Running the code below gives the following crash:

Thanks. Fixed.

> It is completely unclear to me what the list elements for stem-shorted
> really mean.  This is poorly documented IMHO.  The same is true for
> the lists associated with stem lengths for beams.

I added some more doc;

> BTW, what do you think about making properties local to the current
> `group' (< ... >), introducing a \global keyword if necessary?  This
> would simplify the property handling a lot since in most cases you
> only have to \set something without the need to \revert.

I agree that there should be better syntax for setting a property
once, but mixing this with the syntactical grouping (i.e. { } and < >)
is a bad idea.

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Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   address@hidden   |   http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen