Re: Markup in \tempo Is Broken with Lilypond 2.17.21

[Phil Holmes]

"Russell Cook" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> \version "2.17.21"
>
> \score {
>  << \new Voice { \time 4/4 \tempo \markup { "Rubato " \concat { \smaller
> \general-align #Y #DOWN \note #"4" #1 \medium " = ca. 76" } } s1 * 4 } >>
> }
>
> Prior to version 2.17.21, the above code compiled without issues. As of
> 2.17.21, it only compiles if the string between the \markup opener and the
> \concat block is removed. It does not matter if the string is moved into 
> the
> \concat block; Lilypond will consume as much memory as possible until it
> reaches the 2 GB process cap and crashes.
>
> Please note, this is Lilypond on Windows. I have not yet tested this code 
> on
> Mac OS X or Linux.

Thanks for the report.  On my Windows box, the even-much-more-tiny example 
below has the same effect:

{
 \tempo \markup { "123" }
 s1
}


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Phil Holmes
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