Re: break-align-symbol?

[Patrick McCarty]

Hi Mats,

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:39:17AM +0200, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> 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?

That's true.  I don't think this override would be common enough to
add a convert rule for.  A warning probably wouldn't be necessary
either, because it is obvious from looking at the score that the
override did not work as intended.

> 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.

Thanks!  I'll keep that in mind.

-Patrick