Re: Adds dimension stencil command to correct with-dimension (issue 12957047)

[Mike Solomon]

On 24 août 2013, at 13:38, address@hidden wrote:

> On 2013/08/24 10:31:38, dak wrote:
>> On 2013/08/24 10:05:17, mike7 wrote:
>> >
>> > The stencil command takes the skyline of stencil X and uses it as a
>> replacement
>> > for skyline Y. We could use replacement-skyline-stencil as the
> command.
> 
>> I'd just use skyline-stencil here.  If specified, it is the stencil
> used for
>> skylines.
> 
> At any rate: isn't this interface at the same time unnecessarily general
> and restricted?  It will only ever do for replacing all four skylines at
> once or none at all.  An override of four dimensions which can be +inf.0
> or -inf.0 or #f (namely, just use the original skyline for this
> dimension) for different effects seems to fit the known use cases
> better.
> 
> So what are the problems you are trying to solve here?

The question I'm asking is "How can I allow the user to replace the skyline of 
a stencil with another shape?"  The previous patches asked the more specific 
question "How can I allow the user to replace the skyline of a stencil with a 
box?"

Cheers,
MS