Re: break-align-symbol?

[Mats Bengtsson]

Right! If you have used the trick to let one object pretend that it's 
another one
for the break alignment, then the current convert-ly rule doesn't give the
expected result. However, convert-ly will never be able to handle all cases
where users have used clever but more or less unintended settings and it
will be more or less impossible for convert-ly to automatically distinguish
what to do. The question is if your (mis)use of the property is common
enough that we at least should add a warning in convert-ly?

For your original typesetting problem, it might also have been a better 
solution
to change the alignment order and keep the default setting of the 
break-alignment-symbol.

  /Mats

Patrick McCarty wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:17:36PM +0100, Neil Puttock wrote:
>   
> > They're both OK; the convert rule's also fine, since it only applies
> > changes to files which have a version < 2.11.23.
> >
> > 'break-align-symbol -> the key which represents a break-alignable
> > grob; it's just a symbol with the same name as the grob, e.g.
> > KeySignature -> 'key-signature
> >
> > 'break-align-symbols -> a list containing the keys set in
> > 'break-align-symbol, whose order determines how a grob will be aligned
> > to the breakable objects.
> >     
>
> Hi Neil,
>
> Thanks for your response.  However, I think there still a problem,
> because RehearsalMark and BarNumber are the only grobs that use
> 'break-align-symbols (at least from looking at define-grobs.scm).
>
> Attached is old.ly, which uses 'break-align-symbol to achieve an
> interesting effect, but when it is converted to 2.11.55, the result is
> seen in new.ly, and the override no longer has any effect.
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
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