Re: Strange behaviour of multiple \include’d documents

[Jean Abou Samra]

Hello Immanuel,

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Le 30 janv. 2023 à 17:20, Immanuel Asmus <iasmus@freenet.de> a écrit :



Dear community,

I’ve been using lilypond for a fair amount of time, and even though I sometimes use non-standard notation, I’ve never had any problem finding a solution. Until now.

It’s my first time typesetting a song cycle I wrote. I want (as what I understand is recommended) to typeset every piece on its own, then include all of them via the \include command.

My main document looks like this:

\version "2.22.2"

\header {
  title = "Seltsame Liebeslieder"
  composer = "Frühjahr 2007 – Frühjahr 2021"
  tagline = ##f
}

\include "Trinklied.ly"
\include "Fruehlingslied.ly"
\include "Wetterlied.ly"

Now, including the first and second piece was no problem. When I add the third piece, however, I end up without any line break up from the middle of it (see attached “nobreak.png”).

When the music overflows like this, it almost certainly means that a duration is off somewhere, and the last note of each measure is actually straddling over the bar line, continuing into the next measure by a tiny amount. I would try to insert some bar checks (the “|” sign) at places where bar lines are supposed to be, to flag rhythm problems. If you get different results when you include your score after another score, it might mean that you started the problematic score without an explicit duration on the first note. In that case, the duration is that of the previous note, or “4” if there is no previous note. This is a possible cause, maybe you just need to add a “4” on the first note of the score that overflows.

Best,

Jean