Re: Suggestion: Keep original breaks

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> I would like to suggest an enhancement in the handling of line breaks
> that is useful for copying scores from existing models.
> Currently LilyPond can decide about breaks herself or we can manually
> force or prevent breaks.
> But when copying from or proof-reading against an existing score it is
> practical to have the original breaks present for this stage but not
> for the actual resulting score.
> Therefore I suggest a new set of commands \originalBreak,
> \originalPageBreak and \originalPageTurn that make this process more
> automatic by conditionally outputting the respective break or nothing,
> depending on the presence of a switch.
>
> I suggest a command line option -dkeep-original-breaks for this
> switch. That way the user can add that option for a compilation or
> write "#(ly:set-option 'keep-original-breaks)" in the input file.
>
> I have a patch that does this and works well.
> If you agree that this is a useful idea and don't have better ideas
> about naming or how the switch is implemented I would add the
> respective documentation and upload the patch for review.
>
> Any opinions?

Don't see the point.  That's what tags are for, and you'll need them
anyway for other "as original" vs "our score" material.

-- 
David Kastrup