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

[Werner LEMBERG]

> To summarize: stencil expressions (expr_) currently do not contain
> information for how to place stencils with respect to others.  They
> contain information passed to the backends on how to lay out
> stencils.  If we adopt either Keith's patch or my first one (which I
> created before I thought this fully over), we will create one
> stencil primitive that uses the stencil's expression to influence
> layout decisions.  This does not seem consistent with current
> practice and I believe we should find a solution that avoids it.

I think that Keith's (or your) patch is small enough to allow an
deviation from the `ideal' to fix a real bug.  Maybe it helps to add a
remark to the source code that this stencil primitive is a temporary
hack until a better, more generic solution gets implemented.


    Werner