On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 21:54 +0100, Nicolas Sceaux wrote: > Le 28 oct. 09 à 08:37, David Kastrup a écrit : > > > Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> writes: > > > >> Isn't the problem that beams create melismata in vocal music, and you > >> don't want to have a line break in the middle of a melisma? > > > > Baroque melisme can go on for lines. Do we have a way to discourage > > breaks but not completely disallow them? > > Absolutely. > Last week, while typesetting a chorus from Messiah with many beams > crossing > bar lines, I was about to report that as a bug. The lines were just > running out > of the page, which is a bug, period. > In an ideal world, LilyPond would try not to break beams, but not > forbid it. > In a "worst is better" world (that is, our world), breaking beams is > just not > forbidden.
The line breaker has support for arbitrary penalties. If we had a thorough set of examples, we could try to find a penalty that works well. I'm reluctant, though, to just stick in an arbitrary penalty. Joe _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
