Re: Issue 1912 in lilypond: Horizontal spacing depends on stem 'direction

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On Sep 22, 2011, at 9:25 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> Status: Accepted
> Owner: ----
> Labels: Type-Ugly
> 
> New issue 1912 by brownian.box: Horizontal spacing depends on stem 'direction
> http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1912
> 
> Reported by Trevor Daniels,
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2011-09/msg00233.html :
> 
> %------------------8<-------------------------
> It seems the horizontal spacing is slightly dependent on the stem direction. 
> This can cause a score to mysteriously spread over an extra system when a 
> single note with stem down is changed to one with stem up, if the original 
> system exactly fitted the line width.
> 
> The following example demonstrates this by showing the slight difference in 
> the two line lengths.
> 
> \version "2.15.12"
> \score {
> \relative c'' {
>   \repeat unfold 6 { a4 a a a }
> }
> }
> 
> \score {
> \relative c'' {
>   \repeat unfold 6 { c4 c c c }
> }
> }
> %------------------8<-------------------------
> 

Is this a regression?  If so, do you know what the last version was that made 
the two lines equal?

Cheers,
MS