Re: output-distance is broken

[Dan Eble]

On Dec 30, 2020, at 14:53, Dan Eble <dan@faithful.be> wrote:
> 
> On Dec 30, 2020, at 14:45, Dan Eble <dan@faithful.be> wrote:
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>> On Dec 30, 2020, at 13:15, Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 6:23 PM Dan Eble <dan@faithful.be> wrote:
>>> On Dec 30, 2020, at 11:36, Dan Eble <dan@faithful.be> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> output-distance fails to detect significant differences (added text, 
>>>> removed bar numbers) in this change:
>>>> 
>>>> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/582
>>>> https://lilypond.gitlab.io/-/lilypond/-/jobs/938180873/artifacts/test-results/index.html
>>> 
>>> Hm... there are no *.signature files for that case.
>>> 
>>> Looks like the known issue that \book (used for testing page breaking) 
>>> doesn't generate .signature files.
>> 
>> There must be another factor.  When I run this command, I get signature 
>> files:
>> 
>> out/bin/lilypond -ddump-signatures 
>> ~/lilypond-src/input/regression/page-turn-page-breaking-repeats.ly
> 
> The other factor is -dbackend=eps.  There's an obvious 2-line cut & paste 
> candidate that I'm trying now.

https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/583
— 
Dan