Re: Automatic breaks not working?

[Brian Barker]

At 22:47 27/03/2015 +0000, A. Sentman wrote:
> I have a couple of files where Lilypond fails to wrap the score 
> across multiple lines, and instead cuts it off at the edge of the 
> page. Most of these are fairly large files, and it seems to happen 
> consistently if there are more staves than can fit vertically on the 
> page. What I did: I used lilypond to render the example at the 
> bottom of this post. What I expected: The score wraps to the next 
> line after the sixth measure. What happened: The score does not 
> wrap, instead running off of the edge of the page.

This is because your score makes no sense, I'm afraid. With a time 
signature of C, your second occurrence of "r4.." in the top staff 
spans the line between the first and second bars. If I comment out 
the initial "r4" and "r16", in the top staff, the score breaks after 
bar 5 and again after bar 9. This may not be the music that you mean, 
but it illustrates the cause of the problem. The third staff then 
throws a similar problem in bar 13, where the "d4." again spans the 
line between bars 13 and 14.

Once you have a score that properly respects bar lines, the automatic 
line breaks will behave themselves.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker