Re: line breaks and broken beams

[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 it?
> > >>
> > >> BTW, it is very unpleasant that lilypond doesn't emit any kind of
> > >> warning if it produces an overlong staff caused by that issue.  It
> > >> silently accumulates unbreakable bars and happily walks out of the
> > >> right margin.  I would consider this behaviour a bug.
> > >
> > > +1.
> > >
> > > (I've always felt this way, too.)
> > 
> > Then let's drop the IMHO unfounded limitation of not breaking at beams
> > crossing a barline.
> 
> This would just require (I think) a revert of Han-Wen's commit
> a6f65c52e2a20cd64067da45945e485d74ac3105.
> 
> See the attached patch.  What do you think?

It should just be a matter of setting breakable to ##t by default in the
Beam grob.

Joe