On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 9:34 AM Jean Abou Samra <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
> Hello Immanuel, > > Welcome to this list. For your information, I had to approve your message > manually as a list administrator because you are not subscribed to the list > yet. Please fix this by subscribing on > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user (note that once > subscribed, you can opt out of receiving emails or choose to receive only > one batch digest per day). > > > > Le 30 janv. 2023 à 17:20, Immanuel Asmus <ias...@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 > > Nothing new for me to add to Jean's recommendations. He is spot on. Just wanted to second it and say that this exact cause for a system overflow (a bad rhythm value somewhere) and debug method (adding bar checks with "|") will sort this out and has for me hundreds of times in the past. Good luck, Abraham
