Re: line breaks and broken beams

2009-10-28 Thread Joe Neeman
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 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 mel

Re: line breaks and broken beams

2009-10-28 Thread Nicolas Sceaux
Le 28 oct. 09 à 08:37, David Kastrup a écrit : Carl Sorensen 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 complete

Re: line breaks and broken beams

2009-10-28 Thread David Kastrup
Carl Sorensen 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? -- David Kastrup

Re: line breaks and broken beams

2009-10-28 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> 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? Hmm. How often does this happen in real scores? I think that in most circumstances good (and thus flexible) spacing is much more important, and a user should loc

Re: line breaks and broken beams

2009-10-27 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 10/27/09 3:01 PM, "Joe Neeman" wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 12:06 -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote: >> On 2009-10-27, Joe Neeman wrote: >>> On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 01:54 -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote: >> >>> It should just be a matter of setting breakable to ##t by default in the >>> Beam grob.

Re: line breaks and broken beams

2009-10-27 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 12:06 -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote: > On 2009-10-27, Joe Neeman wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 01:54 -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote: > > > On 2009-09-27, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > > > > > > >> What's the reason that line breaks are by default forbidden if > > > > >> there i

Re: line breaks and broken beams

2009-10-27 Thread Patrick McCarty
On 2009-10-27, Joe Neeman wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 01:54 -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote: > > On 2009-09-27, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > > > > >> What's the reason that line breaks are by default forbidden if > > > >> there is a broken beam crossing the bar line, and that you have to > > > >> s

Re: line breaks and broken beams

2009-10-27 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 01:54 -0700, Patrick McCarty wrote: > On 2009-09-27, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > > >> What's the reason that line breaks are by default forbidden if > > >> there is a broken beam crossing the bar line, and that you have to > > >> set the `breakable' flag manually to override

Re: line breaks and broken beams

2009-10-27 Thread Patrick McCarty
On 2009-10-27, Patrick McCarty wrote: > On 2009-09-27, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > > >> What's the reason that line breaks are by default forbidden if > > >> there is a broken beam crossing the bar line, and that you have to > > >> set the `breakable' flag manually to override it? > > >> > > >> BT

Re: line breaks and broken beams

2009-10-27 Thread Patrick McCarty
On 2009-09-27, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > >> What's the reason that line breaks are by default forbidden if > >> there is a broken beam crossing the bar line, and that you have to > >> set the `breakable' flag manually to override it? > >> > >> BTW, it is very unpleasant that lilypond doesn't emit

Re: line breaks and broken beams

2009-10-26 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Ping! Werner == From: Werner LEMBERG Subject: Re: line breaks and broken beams Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:08:31 +0200 (CEST) > >>> What's the reason that line breaks are by default forbidden if >

Re: line breaks and broken beams

2009-09-27 Thread David Kastrup
Werner LEMBERG writes: >>> What's the reason that line breaks are by default forbidden if >>> there is a broken beam crossing the bar line, and that you have to >>> set the `breakable' flag manually to override it? >>> >>> BTW, it is very unpleasant that lilypond doesn't emit any kind of >>> warn

Re: line breaks and broken beams

2009-09-27 Thread Werner LEMBERG
>> What's the reason that line breaks are by default forbidden if >> there is a broken beam crossing the bar line, and that you have to >> set the `breakable' flag manually to override it? >> >> BTW, it is very unpleasant that lilypond doesn't emit any kind of >> warning if it produces an overlong

Re: line breaks and broken beams

2009-09-27 Thread Trevor Bača
+1. (I've always felt this way, too.) Trevor (B). On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > What's the reason that line breaks are by default forbidden if there > is a broken beam crossing the bar line, and that you have to set the > `breakable' flag manually to override it

line breaks and broken beams

2009-09-24 Thread Werner LEMBERG
What's the reason that line breaks are by default forbidden if there is a broken beam crossing the bar line, and that you have to set the `breakable' flag manually to override it? BTW, it is very unpleasant that lilypond doesn't emit any kind of warning if it produces an overlong staff caused by