Re: definition for metrelessness (help?)

[Trevor Bača]

On 3/26/07, Monk Panteleimon <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:02:17AM -0400, Geoff Horton wrote:
>  > A _slightly_ cleaner option might be to leave barAlways set and put a
>  > \noBreak in those spots where a break is unacceptable. If there aren't
>  > many, that might be cleaner. But still not very clean, unfortunately.
>  >
>
> Hmmm... That does sound better, although still not quite there, since I
> would have to put a lot of them in melismata.
>
> How does LP know not to break the line between beamed notes?
> It seems that you can allow the beam to break with \allowBeamBreak.
> So would it be possible to *disallow the break it for situations other
> than beams
> -- melismata and certain note sequences for example? Could we adapt
> whatever-gets-overriden-by-allowBeamBreak to work on non-beam
> scenarios?

Hi Father Panteleimon,

I haven't been following this thread very carefully, but the answer to
the question about LP knowing not to line break beamed notes is the
#'breakable attribute of the Beam grob. If you set ...

 \override Beam #'breakable = ##t

... then LP will line break in the middle of beams, if necessary.
(Beam #'breakable is set to ##f by default.)

Also, although I'm sure an automated solution for meterless music is
preferrable, there is the following setting that I find to be very
helpful for very rhythmically complex music ...

 \override Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn #'line-break-permission = ##f

... which will cause LP to make *no* line breaks whatsoever. You
should, of course, set #'line-break-permission to ##f only if you are
willing to specify all of your \break commands by hand. Probably most
users will find this method tedious, but it is a very good way to get
the results you want if you know precisely where you'd like the music
to line break.


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Trevor Bača
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