Re: line breaks and broken beams

[Nicolas Sceaux]

Le 28 oct. 09 à 08:37, David Kastrup a écrit :

> Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Isn't the problem that beams create melismata in vocal music, and you
> > don't want to have a line break in the middle of a melisma?
>
> Baroque melisme can go on for lines.  Do we have a way to discourage
> breaks but not completely disallow them?

Absolutely.
Last week, while typesetting a chorus from Messiah with many beams  
crossing
bar lines, I was about to report that as a bug. The lines were just  
running out
of the page, which is a bug, period.
In an ideal world, LilyPond would try not to break beams, but not  
forbid it.
In a "worst is better" world (that is, our world), breaking beams is  
just not
forbidden.

Nicolas