Re: Regtest 2.17.13

[David Kastrup]

"address@hidden" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 25 févr. 2013, at 15:10, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> James <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>>> On 25 February 2013 12:00, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>    "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> I've run my pixel comparator on 2.17.13 versus 2.17.12 (note -
>>>>> the output shows this as 2.17.11 since the windows exe
>>>>> contained the wrong version number). Output is at
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://philholmes.net/lilypond/regtestresults/2.17.13/
>>>>> 
>>>>> As might be supposed, most of the differences are connecting
>>>>> bar lines.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>    Good grief. Yes. A real pity that our default regtest comparisons
>>>>    blanked those out.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Well it could always be a case of me missing that assuming I did the
>>>> check.
>> 
>> Unlikely.  It is pretty likely that I also looked at regtest
>> differences, and the differences are far from subtle and rare.  So I am
>> pretty sure that the tests were not given any visual presentation,
>> instead just being filtered prematurely based on the metrics.
>
> This is the case. Span Bar heights do not come from stencils (I
> believe they have an empty height by default), so changes in the
> stencils won't appear in the regtests comparisons, which focus
> exclusively on changes in height and width.

Maybe we should put span bars and possibly other metrically challenged
elements into the ever-changing regtest.

-- 
David Kastrup