Re: Syntactical question [was: Re: Call for help with bar lines]

[David Kastrup]

Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:30 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>> But I don't think we advertise \bar "" for anything except introducing
>> optional breakpoints in the middle of a bar.  Why would we want
>> additional space then?  The spacing of an optional breakpoint should not
>> be different from the spacing of a forced breakpoint, should it?
>
> OTOH, if the line gets broken there, we don't want a situation like in
> second png sent by Harm.

But why would we want it when writing \break?  Where is the point in
"fixing" a problem by making a loosely related command act as a
workaround?

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David Kastrup