Re: feature request - unmetered music

[David Kastrup]

Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> As of now the proper way of entering unmetered music is with cadenzas
> (or am i wrong?). This has quite serious (or at least quite seriously
> inconvenient) drawback: LilyPond won't make line breaks itself, you
> have to add them manually.
> Probably because of that some people don't use cadenzas and instead
> make barlines invisible. This results in poor spacing (invisible bar
> lines still take horizontal place).
> It would be convenient to add something like \times \unmetered that
> would work like \cadenzaOn but with automatic line breaking.

Line breaks need to happen between musical phrases, and there is no way
for Lilypond to figure out those.

"Anywhere not interrupting a beam" would be an approximation, but not
reasonably good enough.

What would be required is telling Lilypond "this is a possible place for
a break" rather than "break here".

That is: don't force the user to manually specify breaks, but rather
feasible breakpoints.

-- 
David Kastrup