I agree that when a long markup stretches the measure at the end of a line, it suggests that there may be better ways of laying out the line breaks.
Perhaps there should be a penalty for stretched measures due to markup in Lilypond's line breaking algorithm? Saul On Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 6:34 PM Andrew Bernard <andrew.bern...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi edes, > > Well, if absolute line breaking is not important in your score, you could > always put a break in front of the bar with the long text. In terms of > engraving, which to me is all about clarity for musicians to read, you > don't see many examples of this, as it is indeed hard to read a note then > read the next line for rest of the directive and then start the next line. > I'd be looking at better ways of laying out. Or you could perhaps just > stack the long instruction vertically with several lines in a column. If > you are doing this on a page break it would not be good, I think! > > Sorry, not the specific answer to your question. > > Andrew > > > On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 at 03:04, edes <e...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> >> a related but different question: how can i make a markup wrap at the end >> of the line? >> >> _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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