Re: [bug] line breaking

[Juergen Reuter]

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Juergen Reuter schreef:
> > \version "2.9.24"
> > \context Voice \transpose c c'' {
> >   c8 c4
> >   c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c
> >   c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c
> >   c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c
> >   c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c
> >   c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c
> >   c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c
> > }
> >
> > the leading "c8" causes that never in this score a barline coincides with a 
> > note starting/ending.  As a result, no line break is found for this score, 
> > and the whole score is printed in a single line, thus exceeding the right 
> > margin of the paper.
> >
> > I think, the score should, regardless of the missing coincidence, still be 
> > breakable at each of the barlines.  Or I am missing something? 
>
> Yes; normally you'd use barchecks and figure this out immediately.

Not in (at least transciptions of) mensural music.  See, e.g. in the 
manual, Sect. D.5.1 the horrible mess of where you can and where you can 
not use barchecks.

> Or remove 
> Forbid_break_engraevr.

Ah, ok, thanks!

> Switching this off would mean that we print scores with messed up spacing in 
> this case.

No, seems to work for me (I removed Forbid_line_break_engraver from Voice 
context).  At least, for the moment it works. ;-)

Greetings,
Juergen