Re: Line breaks and text positioning

[Graham Percival]

Read the Learning Manual, "Less tweaks with longer processing" or
something like that.  It's at the end of the manual.

In the 2.13 docs, this section might have moved to Usage.

Cheers,
- Graham

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 05:34:51PM -0000, Phil Holmes wrote:
> There is what looks like a problem in how LilyPond calculates line breaks 
> when there is some text to display.  The example I've attached shows 
> markup but I know it also applies to Tempo indications.  Is this a known 
> bug (I have searched and can't find it)?
>
> I know it can be worked around with \break, but as a general rule it  
> shouldn't be necessary to do this.
>
> --
> Phil Holmes
>


> \version "2.12.3"
> #(set-global-staff-size 17)
> 
> {
>  \clef "treble"
>  \time 4/4
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4  |  % 1
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4  |  % 2
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4  |  % 3
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4  |  % 4
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4  |  % 5
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4  |  % 6
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4  |  % 7
>  % \break
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4^\markup {\normalsize \italic "Some text to test linebreaking 
> calculation"}   |  % 8
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4  |  % 9
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4  |  % 10
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4  |  % 11
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4  |  % 12
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4  |  % 13
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4  |  % 14
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4  |  % 15
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4  |  % 16
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4  |  % 17
>  b'4 b'4 b'4 b'4 \bar "|."
> }

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