>>>>> "Mats" == Mats Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The attached file does what I expect if I run ly2dvi on it. The
>> spacing isn't optimal, but it comes out on 2 pages. However, if I
>> use it as a \lilypondfile in the attached .lytex file and run
>> lilypond-book on it, it claims it can't find a good spacing, and comes
>> out with lots of really sparse lines on 4 pages.
Mats> Interesting! The problem is not lilypond-book itself but that it
Mats> set the line width to 390pt. With that linewidth it happens that
Mats> the (invisible) bar line where Lilypond wants to break the line
Mats> falls in the middle of a note because of Morley's intricate
Mats> rhytms.
That would explain why the problem went away when I made a pretty
minor change to the lilypond. But it makes me nervous that this can
pop up at any time. (I think it happened when I added the custos, but
it might have been the incipit.)
Mats> One solution is to add the property setting
Mats> \property Score.barAlways=##t
Mats> which allows Lilypond to insert line breaks between every
Mats> single note, not just at every four quavers.
I've thought about using that, and it does in fact fix this particular
problem. But some of the people I play with used to complain when
abc2ps would break a line in the middle of a "beat" (in this case, a
half note), so I was thinking of the fact that lilypond puts in an
invisible bar every so often as a feature. So if I did barAlways, I
would have to check this carefully, and that's the kind of thing
computers should do for you.
So I tried changing the line width to 400 pt instead of 390 with the
geometry package, and lilypond-book crashed on me:
lilypond-book (GNU LilyPond) 1.4.2
Reading `/tmp/test.lytex'
Reading `/tmp/lady-bassus.ly'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/lilypond-book", line 1270, in ?
do_file(input_filename)
File "/usr/local/bin/lilypond-book", line 1185, in do_file
scan_preamble(chunks)
File "/usr/local/bin/lilypond-book", line 649, in scan_preamble
scan_latex_preamble(chunks)
File "/usr/local/bin/lilypond-book", line 632, in scan_latex_preamble
paperguru.set_geo_option(k, o[k])
File "/usr/local/bin/lilypond-book", line 185, in set_geo_option
self.m_geo_width = value
File "/usr/local/bin/lilypond-book", line 195, in __setattr__
f = dimension_conversion_dict[dim]
NameError: There is no variable named 'dim'
Here's the lytex file that did that:
\documentclass[12pt,letter]{book} % Specifies the document class
\usepackage[letterpaper,width=400pt]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Lady if I through griefe,}
\markboth{Lady if I through griefe,}{Lady if I through griefe,}
\section*{ XIIII. Lady if I through griefe, }
\label{sec:lady}
\subsection*{Bassus}
\label{sec:ladybassus}
\lilypondfile{lady-bassus.ly}
\end{document}
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