Re: Explicit line- and page-breaking

[Trevor Bača]

On 2/13/07, Bertalan Fodor <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The answer is usually that Lily sees something
> ugly in the line- or page-breaking that we're asking for, and so
> disregards the request.
>
> Lily aims at optimal spacing and layout and so this behavior makes sense.
>
> No, this doesn't make sense at all. A computer software (which is in practice 
> always buggy) should never ever override anything I tell explicitly. This is 
> the very cause why LaTeX is a nightmare to use (however it thinks itself much 
> smarter than human beings). E.g. it doesn't even allow for ideological reasons 
> to change the margin with one millimeter on one of the pages, to let your text 
> fit on it.

:-)

And this is what's so wonderful about the availability of
line-break-permission = ##f (and page-break-permission = ##f): the
ability to turn *off* unwanted help when it's appropriate to do so ...

The trade-off with those two commands is that we must then take the
responsibility of inserting all breaking information by hand (which is
very useful for certain scores indeed).



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Trevor Bača
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