On 8/30/2025 12:18 PM, Magnus Svenson wrote:
Tightening up the quotation marks seems to fix it:
"A
B
C"
Thank you, Magnus. Your discovery shows that the page breaking
algorithm can't deal with an empty line or an embedded newline in the
string that string-lines works on. That should be documented as a known
problem.
But it gets worse. The page breaking problem even infects any proper
subsequent string-lines markuplists, as shown by this example.
\version "2.24.3"
\markuplist { \column-lines \string-lines
"A
B
C"
}
\markuplist { \column-lines \string-lines
"D
E
F"
}
In this case, without the blank line between B and C, both the A B C and
D E F markuplists display the expected columns at the top of a single page.
But including that blank line (or equivalently, a \n after the B) breaks
up not only the A B C markuplist but also the innocent D E F
markuplist. The output starts with A B at the top of the page, but
then page breaking begins putting each stanza line on a new page, so
even D E and F are now on separate pages for a total of 6 pages.
It appears that page breaking goes berserk globally when a single
string-lines delivers a bad list of markups from a string.
Are there page-breaking experts here who could explain what's going on?
Jeff
