On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 20:30, Marc Hohl<[email protected]> wrote: > Michał Dwużnik schrieb: >> >> Hi, >> >> after quite a long time of not using lilypond I got back to "engraving". >> Attached example (modified SATB example, proven to work with other >> pieces) produces somewhat surprising result >> - printout with second line extending to the right well past the edge >> of the page... >> How should I hint lilypond to break the lines and get good result? >> > > Such weird output is mostly due to the fact of assigning the wrong or no > length to a note. > In the tenor voice, you coded des4.( c4 bes2) which is surely too much for a > 4/4 bar.
Thank you for pinpointing the root cause. > Second, you forced a line break in the soprano voice in the middle of a bar. > This is purely my error, noted only after sending, sorry. > To avoid such errors, it is better and more readable to write every bar in a > separate line, > and you can end every bar with a "|" to force bar checks. > That's indeed a great hint for future. Regards Michal PS: The good thing I realized is that the mistake I made shown me clearly I'm typesetting sth more complicated than the last time. Which somehow makes me feeling good ;) _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
