Re: line breaking newbie question

[Mats Bengtsson]

LilyPond will only consider breaking lines where you have bar lines.
If you don't want any bar lines in the output, you could indicate
positions that are good candidates for line breaks by inserting
invisible bar lines with \bar "". If you want to force a line
break, combine it with the command \break:
\bar "" \break

If you don't want any bar lines in your score and want LilyPond
to be able to break the lines anywhere, you could use
\score{
  ...
  \paper{
    ...
    \translator{
      \ScoreContext
      barAlways = ##t
      defaultBarType = #""
    }
  }
}


By the way, I hope you realize that the line
\include "paper16.ly"
in your example doesn't have any effect, since it comes after
the score.

  /Mats

Rupert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just getting started with lilypond which, by the way, is looking
> fantastic so far.
>
> I'm having trouble with line breaks. I want raggedright output, by
> which I mean I want to break no matter how short that will make the
> current line if the current line would otherwise be too wide for the
> page. I can't seem to get this... could someone please tell me what
> I'm doing wrong in this short example?
>
> Cheers,
> Rupert
>
> \include "english.ly"
>
> rhStandardMajorBrokenChord=\notes { \cadenzaOn \key c\major \relative
>     c' { c8-1[ e-2 g-3 c-5] e,-1[ g-2 c-4 e-5] g,-1[ c-2 e-3 g-5]
>     c,2-1 g'8-5[ e-3 c-2 g-1] e'-5[ c-4 g-2 e-1] c'-5[ g-3 e-2 c-1]
>     \cadenzaOff g'2-5 }}
>     
> rhStandardMajorArpeggio=\notes { \cadenzaOn \key c\major \relative c'
> { c8-1[ e-2 g-3] c-1[ e-2 g-3] c-5[ g-3 e-2] c-1[ g-3 e-2] 
> \cadenzaOff c2-5 }}
>
>
> \score {
>     \notes {
>     \time 2/4
>     \context PianoStaff
>     << 
>         \context Staff = up  { 
> 	  \rhStandardMajorArpeggio
>           \rhStandardMajorBrokenChord
> 	}  
>     >>
>     }
>     \paper {
>     raggedright = ##t
>     papersize = "a4"
>     linewidth = 17\cm
>     }
> }
>
> \include "paper16.ly"