#2118 Overriding stencil of StringNumber leads to "programming error"messages

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: *anonymous

Originally created by: PhilEHol...@googlemail.com

David Kastrup reports:

the awful spacing of input/regression/tablature-harmonic-functions.ly
let me to investigate, and it is apparently due to StringNumber being
set to transparent, meaning that it still occupies space.  I tried now
to do

\new Voice \with { \override StringNumber #'stencil = ##f }
{ \clef "treble_8"
e,1 | % check whether tab note head is restored
\harmonicByFret #12 e'4\1 ~
\harmonicByFret #12 e'4\1 (
\ottava #1
\harmonicByFret #7 e'4\1)
\harmonicByFret #5 e'8\1
\ottava #2
\harmonicByFret #4 < b\2 e'\1 >8 |
\harmonicByFret #3 < g\3 b\2 e'\1 >4
\harmonicByFret #2.7 < g\3 b\2 e'\1 >4
\harmonicByFret #2.3 < g\3 b\2 e'\1 >4
\harmonicByFret #2 < g\3 b\2 e'\1 >4 |
\ottava #0
}

instead (removing the New_fingering_engraver is not an option since it
is responsible for more than just string numbers), but I get programming
errors in return:

Interpreting music...
Preprocessing graphical objects...
programming error: cannot align on self: empty element
continuing, cross fingers

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Originally posted by: Carl.D.S...@gmail.com

Duplicate of 2085, which is being worked on. 

Mergedinto: 2085
Cc: adam.spi...@gmail.com
Status: Duplicate