Re: Improbable offset for stencil

Hello Thomas,
Thank you for the merge request.
In https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2386 it says it
"must be rebased,"
-- yotam

On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 4:32 PM Thomas Morley <[email protected]>
wrote:

> ‪Am Sa., 20. Juli 2024 um 11:34 Uhr schrieb ‫Yotam Medini יותם מדיני‬‎
> <[email protected]>:‬
> >
> > Werner & Jean - thanks to both of you for your explanations.
> >
> > Since debugging and understanding Scheme/Guile code
> > is beyond my current capabilities, I will not be able to provide
> > a correct fix for footer placement.
> >
> > -- yotam
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 1:39 AM Jean Abou Samra <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Le samedi 20 juillet 2024 à 00:31 +0300, Yotam Medini יותם מדיני a
> écrit :
> > > > Another fix attempt is attached.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you for putting the effort to write a patch. However, this
> > > patch is essentially papering over the problem. Translating a stencil
> > > by ±inf isn't correct and should be logged; instead the code that
> > > places the footer on the page should be changed to detect this
> > > situation and do something sensible (whatever that may be; one
> > > could look at how e.g. \markup \column handles empty vertical
> > > extents and mimick that).
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
> This is now
> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6731
> Proposed fix at
> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/2386
>
> Cheers,
>   Harm
>