Re: Problem with line breaks and guitar chords

[David Bellows]

Hey all, problem solved! While skimming the Notation Reference manual
I found the \remove "Forbid_line_break_engraver" command which fixes
the problem and makes everything else look nicer.

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 1:40 PM, David Bellows <address@hidden> wrote:
> Wow, that looks so much better. I've attached the pdf of what happens
> when I compile the code (wasn't sure if that was allowed on the list).
> And yeah, I don't get a warning when I compile it. I guess something
> has changed from 2.18 to 2.19.
>
> And yes, I've got all sorts of cool things going on in this project.
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Abraham Lee <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 2:24 PM, David Bellows <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all, I'm developing a program that does various things to sounds
>> including various ways of creating scores. One of the things intends to
>> produce simple guitar chords with fret diagrams, chord names, and strumming
>> patterns by generating a Lilypond file. I'm currently using the ragged-right
>> = ##t option in the layout section and most of the time the results are
>> fine. However, if you compile the following code it provides an exception as
>> the last line runs way off into the margin and the last four notes are lost.
>> From the documentation I'm guessing the reason this is happening is that the
>> bar lines aren't being properly accounted for on my end as I am not breaking
>> up durations across bar lines. While maybe, someday, I'll be able to figure
>> out how to eliminate that problem on my end I was wondering if there was a
>> way to get Lilypond to skip to the next line anyway without any kind of
>> manual intervention. There are something like 2.5 quintillion scores that
>> can be potentially produced by this software so there is no way to handle
>> them manually. (Note, I've included the Lilypond file exactly as my program
>> created it minus the spacing). Thanks, Dave \version "2.19.11" \header {
>> dedication = "(For Some Dead Thing)" title = "Threnody" subtitle = ""
>> subsubtitle = "" instrument = "Guitar" poet = "" composer = "David Bellows"
>> arranger = "Kosmos Noetos" tagline = "" copyright = "© 15 August 2014" }
>> \language "english" \include "predefined-guitar-fretboards.ly" \score { <<
>> \new ChordNames { \chordmode { c4 g4 g4 c4 c8 c8 g4 g8 c8 c4 c8 c4 g4 g8 g4
>> g4 c4 c8 c4 c4 g8 c4 c4 f4 c4 c4 g4 f8 g8 g8 c4 c4 a4:m f4 g4 f4 \bar "|." }
>> } \new FretBoards { \chordmode { c4 g4 g4 c4 c8 c8 g4 g8 c8 c4 c8 c4 g4 g8
>> g4 g4 c4 c8 c4 c4 g8 c4 c4 f4 c4 c4 g4 f8 g8 g8 c4 c4 a4:m f4 g4 f4 \bar
>> "|." } } \new Voice \with {\consists "Pitch_squash_engraver"} { \relative
>> c'' { \improvisationOn c4 g4 g4 c4 c8 c8 g4 g8 c8 c4 c8 c4 g4 g8 g4 g4 c4 c8
>> c4 c4 g8 c4 c4 f4 c4 c4 g4 f8 g8 g8 c4 c4 a4 f4 g4 f4 } }
>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>> \layout{ragged-right = ##t} \midi{} }
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>>
>> David,
>>
>> That sounds exciting! When I ran your code, just as you gave it above, I
>> didn't have _any_ problems (I guess I'm using 2.18.2, but I'm not sure why
>> that would make our outputs THAT much different), not even a warning.
>>
>> I've attached my output. It looks fine to me! Hope you can get it working.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Abraham