What's an insane spring?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> When I run ly2dvi on the attached file, I get the message:
> 
> Preprocessing elements... 
> Calculating column positions... programming error: Negative dist, setting to 
> 1.0 PT (Continuing; cross thumbs)
> programming error: Negative dist, setting to 1.0 PT (Continuing; cross thumbs)
> programming error: Insane spring found. Setting to unit spring. (Continuing; 
> cross thumbs)

>       { \lyrics "But what can slay my thoughts they may not start," }

Your exceptionally long lyric syllables confuse lily. Have you
considered using mudela-book, and putting the other stanzas
in LaTeX? 

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Han-Wen Nienhuys   |   address@hidden    | http://www.cs.uu.nl/~hanwen/