Re: Does anyone still use breakbefore?

[Ian Hulin]

Hi all,

Can't you use a \bookpart block to achieve the page break at the start 
of a \score, too?
Cheers,
Ian


Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
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> Am Montag, 19. Oktober 2009 20:09:33 schrieb Joe Neeman:
> > For a couple of years now, we've had Nicolas' cool top-level \pageBreak
> > commands. So I'd like to get rid of the code supporting the old
> > breakbefore \paper block variable. 
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> Nitpicking: It's a \header block variable (attached to each score) - I tried 
> it as a paper variable and was quite confused when things didn't work ;-)
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> > Before I do, is there still a
> > use-case for it?
>
> Yes, I think so. The use case I'm thinking of is works with multiple pieces: 
> By default, pieces start in the middle of a page. But with the breakbefore 
> header variable, one can automatically start a new page with each new movement 
> (as opposed to manually inserting dozens of \pageBreak commands). The 
> breakbefore is kind of a global switch, so one can easily change styles.
>
> Cheers,
> Reinhold