Re: Problem with line breaks and guitar chords

[Jacques Menu]

Hello David,

2.18.2 behaves nicely with this example, though.

JM

Am 15.08.2014 um 22:24 schrieb David Bellows <address@hidden>:

> Hello all,
> 
> I'm developing a program that does various things to sounds including
> various ways of creating scores. One of the things intends to produce
> simple guitar chords with fret diagrams, chord names, and strumming
> patterns by generating a Lilypond file. I'm currently using the
> ragged-right = ##t option in the layout section and most of the time
> the results are fine. However, if you compile the following code it
> provides an exception as the last line runs way off into the margin
> and the last four notes are lost.
> 
> From the documentation I'm guessing the reason this is happening is
> that the bar lines aren't being properly accounted for on my end as I
> am not breaking up durations across bar lines. While maybe, someday,
> I'll be able to figure out how to eliminate that problem on my end I
> was wondering if there was a way to get Lilypond to skip to the next
> line anyway without any kind of manual intervention. There are
> something like 2.5 quintillion scores that can be potentially produced
> by this software so there is no way to handle them manually.
> 
> (Note, I've included the Lilypond file exactly as my program created
> it minus the spacing).
> 
> Thanks, Dave
> 
> \version "2.19.11"
> \header {
>  dedication = "(For Some Dead Thing)"
>  title = "Threnody"
>  subtitle = ""
>  subsubtitle = ""
>  instrument = "Guitar"
>  poet = ""
>  composer = "David Bellows"
>  arranger = "Kosmos Noetos"
>  tagline = ""
>  copyright = "© 15 August 2014"
> }
> \language "english"
> \include "predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly"
> \score {
> <<
> \new ChordNames {
> \chordmode {
> c4 g4 g4 c4 c8 c8 g4 g8 c8 c4 c8 c4 g4 g8 g4 g4 c4 c8 c4 c4 g8 c4 c4
> f4 c4 c4 g4 f8 g8 g8 c4 c4 a4:m f4 g4 f4 \bar "|."
> }
> }
> \new FretBoards {
> \chordmode {
> c4 g4 g4 c4 c8 c8 g4 g8 c8 c4 c8 c4 g4 g8 g4 g4 c4 c8 c4 c4 g8 c4 c4
> f4 c4 c4 g4 f8 g8 g8 c4 c4 a4:m f4 g4 f4 \bar "|."
> }
> }
> \new Voice \with {\consists "Pitch_squash_engraver"}
> {
> \relative c'' {
> \improvisationOn
> c4 g4 g4 c4 c8 c8 g4 g8 c8 c4 c8 c4 g4 g8 g4 g4 c4 c8 c4 c4 g8 c4 c4
> f4 c4 c4 g4 f8 g8 g8 c4 c4 a4 f4 g4 f4
> }
> }
>>> 
> \layout{ragged-right = ##t}
> \midi{}
> }
> 
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