Re: Warnings when omitting fingering with overridden orientation

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> 2016-09-02 16:44 GMT+02:00 Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson <address@hidden>:
>> If I want to omit the fingering instructions for some part of a score or the
>> entire thing, I put "\omit Fingering" in the appopriate place. However, it
>> results in warnings ("programming error: Infinity or NaN encountered") if
>> "\set fingeringOrientations = #'(left)" has been previously done. The PDF
>> output is still correct though.
>>
>> Test case:
>>
>> \version "2.19.47"
>>
>> \relative c' {
>>   \clef treble
>>   \key d \major
>>   \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left)
>>   <fis,-1 a-2 d-5>2 <a-1 e'-5>4 d |
>>   \omit Fingering
>>   <a-1 cis-2 fis-4>8 g' g4 cis,2 |
>> }
>
>
> Try:
>
> \relative c' {
>   \clef treble
>   \key d \major
>   \set fingeringOrientations = #'(left)
>   <fis,-1 a-2 d-5>2 <a-1 e'-5>4 d |
>   \omit Fingering
>   \unset fingeringOrientations
>   <a-1 cis-2 fis-4>8 g' g4 cis,2 |
> }
>
> Obviously the context-property `fingeringOrientations' needs a stencil
> to deal with, thus unset it.

Arguably, that would be a condition worth detecting and silently
ignoring.

-- 
David Kastrup