On 17 Apr 2013, at 15:52, David Kastrup wrote: > Hanns Holger Rutz <cont...@sciss.de> writes: > >> hi there, >> >> i'm trying to convert a sequence of time instants to a rhythmic >> score. This might look strange (see below), but is perfectly valid my >> scenario. Unfortunately there is an issue with the line breaks. In the >> below example, their is a break after the first bar (why?) > > Because that's the only valid place you leave for LilyPond. LilyPond > does not break in the middle of a note.
so it doesn't automatically introduce a tie if a note spreads across a bar boundary, is that what you are saying? if so, - can I introduce that behaviour (without manually having to break up the notes) - can I disable the bar measure at all? > >> and then subsequently there aren't any useful breaks, > > See, you agree with LilyPond here. No I don't. I see a lot of uesful breaks, but Lilypond doesn't resort to any of them. > >> making the lines become overfull. >> >> It gets worse if I enable proportional durations (which I actually would >> like to do), where the last line gets crammed with overlapping notes. >> >> any clues what I'm doing wrong / how to this? >> >> thanks, .h.h. > > \layout > { > \context { > \Voice > \remove "Forbid_line_break_engraver" > } > } That does what I want. Thanks! best, .h.h. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user