Thank you for the replies, but they don't really answer the question. I'm aware that I could give up (your first suggestion), but I'd rather not. And \laissezVibrer is too limited. It only works for the first half of a broken tie, not the second half, and it doesn't work at all for slurs or lyrics. And even the first-half-ties that it produces don't look right; I imagine this could be tweaked, but I want LilyPond to do the right thing automatically without tweaking. That's what it's best at, usually.
Am I correct in interpreting the lack of other replies in the last two days as meaning that this can't currently be done in LilyPond (without extensive tweaking)? I think it is the sort of thing that ought to be doable, given LilyPond's support for all kinds of crazy stuff that almost nobody cares about, such as feathered beams. Should I try posting on lilypond-devel? Also, I wonder if anyone can help me to implement the solution I was originally going to try. I don't understand LilyPond's rendering pipeline well enough to know how/whether I can delete extra systems after slur and lyric positions are determined but before the systems are allocated space on the page. -- Ben _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
