Re: Usage 2.3: max-markup-depth

[David Kastrup]

Federico Bruni <address@hidden> writes:

> I've just spot a missing translation in the italian docs and I guess that
> it's because I didn't understand it.
> Can you tell me what is about?
>
> Usage 2.3
>
> max-markup-depth 1024 Maximum depth for the markup tree. If a markup has
> more levels, assume it will not terminate on its own, print a warning and
> return a null markup instead.
>
> "Levels" refers to the number of nested blocks inside a markup block?
> "Terminate"?

It's basically stopping markups that are (by accident?) defined either
recursively or mutually recursively without a proper termination
condition from exhausting all of LilyPond's memory (usually a rather
ugly way to fail).

-- 
David Kastrup