Re: pageBreak?

[Trevor Bača]

On 2/1/07, Joe Neeman <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2/1/07, Trevor Bača <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi Joe,
> >
> > This is cool.
> >
> > So setting line-break-permission = ##f should preclude the value of
> > page-break-permission, right? (IOW, saying "don't put line breaks
> > anywhere except where I tell you" should entail "don't put page breaks
> > except where I tell you, too", right?).
>
> It should, but it doesn't (until the next unstable version, anyway).
> This logic is currently handled by the \break, \pageBreak, etc. macros
> but it's a good idea to check it in the backend too.

OK, cool.


> > Question: in the following snippet, setting line-break-permission =
> > ##f clearly has the intended effect: only a single line of music that
> > runs off the page; but commenting out line-break-permission and
> > leaving only page-break-permission = ##f seems to have no effect (ie,
> > still multiple pages of music). What am I missing in setting
> > page-break-permission = ##f?
>
> There's a bug (fixed in my working copy) where in order to forbid
> page-breaks you need to use '(), not ##f.

Ah. Yup. Using #'() works fine. I'll wait to .16 for ##f.

Neat. I'll probably start using these for my control-freak layouts ...



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