Re: \break not working when grouped

[Erik Sandberg]

On Tuesday 05 April 2005 23.41, David Bobroff wrote:
> Strange, I see the closing '>>' in my message (and in the input file), but
> not in your quote of my message.  I *do* get output.  Without the closing
> '>>' I would expect error messages and no output.  The output I get,
> however, is all on one line rather than having a break.  This was working a
> day or three ago.

The missing >> was probably due to my mail program. What I tried to say, was 
that you could try
{ s1 \break }
iso.
s1 \break

When you write
<<
  \mus
  s1 \break
>>
it does what you would expect this code to do:
<<
  \mus
  s1
  \break
>>

I.e., lily will do all 3 things at the same time.

Erik

> -David
>
> At 11:06 PM 4/5/2005 +0200, Erik Sandberg wrote:
> >On Tuesday 05 April 2005 20.23, David Bobroff wrote:
> >> Just noticed that the following construction no longer works.  Shouldn't
> >> I see a single measure on each line with this?
> >>
> >> -David
> >>
> >> \version "2.5.18"
> >>
> >> mus = \relative c' {
> >>   c d e f g a b c
> >> }
> >>
> >> \score {
> >>   \context Staff <<
> >>     \mus
> >>     s1 \break
> >>
> >> }
> >
> >perhaps you just forgot brackets?
> >
> >\score {
> >  \context Staff <<
> >    \mus
> >    { s1 \break }
> >
> >}
> >
> >Erik