Tim McNamara wrote:
Apologies if this is a duplicate, it did not seem to get relayed
through the server the first time I sent it.
I'm doing an arrangement of a song for a jazz ensemble. I am finding
that LilyPond is ignoring one of the manual line breaks (after bar 12-
I like four bars per line for consistency and readability and I am
getting two lines of two bars) and I can't figure out what I've messed
up. I'm sure it's something simple and I'll say "duh" when it's
pointed out, but I'm flummoxed right at the moment. The time counts
in those bars in \harmonies and \melody seem to be correct and
LilyPond offers no error message about it (e.g. that the break was
overridden). The way my template is laid out, I have the chords and
melody in separate blocks and then they are assembled in the \score
block.
Looking again I see that LilyPond isn't ignoring a \break, it is
inserting an extra line break after bar 10 which I don't want. I
suppose this can be suppressed somehow but adding a \noBreak produces
even stranger results- three bars on one line and one looooong bar on
the next.
Hi Tim,
There's a snippet in the Notation Reference that may be able to help
you. Look in section 4.4.3 at the example just below where it says "To
understand how each of these different settings work, we begin by
looking at an example that includes no overrides at all." It uses an
extra voice with nothing but
s1*5 \break s1*5 \break
and so forth, making the systems break after every fifth bar. Maybe
this approach will do what you want.
Jon
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