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Re: Force Lilypond to preserve vertical order of TextScripts?


From: Saul Tobin
Subject: Re: Force Lilypond to preserve vertical order of TextScripts?
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2018 13:25:13 -0800

Indeed. However, the vertical order of expressions is part of content, not a purely graphical layout issue.

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 1:08 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
Saul Tobin <address@hidden> writes:

> It seems very un-Lilypond-like for the output to be so unpredictable,

No.  It is the job of LilyPond to arrange elements in the best possible
manner representing the input, and that is what it does.

LilyPond is not a music typewriter, but a typesetting program.  It
doesn't principally work left-to-right and top-to-bottom.

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David Kastrup


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