Re: line breaking newbie question

[Rupert]

> Rupert wrote:
> >
> >I'm having trouble with line breaks. 

[snip]

> >\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"
> 

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:56:01PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> LilyPond will only consider breaking lines where you have bar lines.

Yes. Oddly though, in my example I have barlines but lilypond doesn't
break there although not doing so means the line is far too long.

> If you don't want any bar lines in the output, 

actually i do want barlines... I want bars of arbitrary length and I
want the barlines to be measure boundaries too (so accidentals are
dealt with properly). I'm getting the arbitrary bar lengths with
\cadenzaOn ... \cadenzaOff pairs.

> 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

Interesting, but I'd much prefer to let lilypond decide where to break
the lines.

> 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.

Nope, I hadn't realised that :) But moving that line to the top of the
file creates a tex file that exhausts tex's memory :(

Thanks for the help,
Rupert

PS I should have mentioned before that I'm using lilypond 2.0.0