more about page breaks in measures

[Adam James Wilson]

Here's the rest of this thread, in reverse order - I accidentally replied to
Mats instead of the list.
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The principle you describe should indeed work. However, when I tried a
small example, I discovered that there's some strange bug involved and I
have just sent a bug report. It seems to be a recent bug, since at least
one of
my examples worked correctly in version 2.10.25 but failed when I upgraded
to 2.10.29 (for the development versions, I have only tried 2.11.29,
where it
fails as well).

    /Mats
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Hi Mats, thanks for the reply!

I've checked this - the first
method, putting a fake barline in each staff, doesn't work, because 
the two staves in the score have streams of notes in relatively prime
number pulses over the same period of time - so a barline in one lands
on top of a note duration in the other.  Putting the break in an extra
"empty" voice and removing Forbid_line_break engraver from the voice in
which the break should occur I though might work, so I removed the
engraver from the music voice in both staves and added the a voice with
the same breaks in each of the staves - this didn't seem to work; the
console printed something like "pagebreak event overidden by some other
event . . ."  Is there something else I'm missing? 

 Imagine a measure of 270/8 over a measure 331/8 in the same
time - each barred in 3/8; in each the 3/8 bar takes up different
amount of space, so none of the barlines line up. 

It seems the
simplest hack would be to fix the page width issue - I tried adding my
own page, (append! paper-alist '(("adam" . (cons (* 1100 in) (* 17
in))))), but the output width was still truncated to 200in.  It seems
like this upper limit, wherever it is coded, would be easy to remove,
yes?

BTW I'm using the latest development release v. 2.11.29

Best,
Adam

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On 8/17/07, Mats Bengtsson <address@hidden > wrote:

See the section on Line breaking for information on how to include
line breaks in the middle of a measure. The same principle applies to
page breaks.

   /Mats