RE: hang --"going backwards in time;" "insane spring distance requested"

[Ed Ardzinski]

Is 11748 a legit denominator for a time signature?
 
2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384...I am a pretty basic writer, so I've never gone beyond time sigs like 13/16.

Have to admit the error message text is cute.

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> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:46:00 -0800
> From: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: hang --"going backwards in time;" "insane spring distance requested"
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using some complicated time signatures, like 3599/11748 followed
> by 2667/25276 followed by 177/568, etc. (I have a good reason for this).
>
> They render nicely for nearly ten pages or so of music, and then
> suddenly adding an additional "strange" time signature causes two
> programming errors:
>
> The first comes before drawing begins.
> "going backwards in time, trying to freeze in time . . ."
>
> The second comes during drawing.
> "insane spring distance requested, ignoring . . .cross fingers"
>
> Then lily hangs -- it keeps spinning forever.
>
> I'm using Lilypond 2.11.34 on a Mac PPC (it also breaks the same
> way in 2.11.35).
>
> I checked my arithmetic many times -- the strange time signtaures
> eventially lead to a sync-up with aother part in 3/8 meter -- and the
> math is correct. It seems to be a problem that happens when actually
> drawing the page.
>
> Any clues or similar experiences?
>
> Best,
> Adam
>
>
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