Re: line breaks and broken beams

[Patrick McCarty]

On 2009-09-27, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> >> What's the reason that line breaks are by default forbidden if
> >> there is a broken beam crossing the bar line, and that you have to
> >> set the `breakable' flag manually to override it?
> >>
> >> BTW, it is very unpleasant that lilypond doesn't emit any kind of
> >> warning if it produces an overlong staff caused by that issue.  It
> >> silently accumulates unbreakable bars and happily walks out of the
> >> right margin.  I would consider this behaviour a bug.
> >
> > +1.
> >
> > (I've always felt this way, too.)
> 
> Then let's drop the IMHO unfounded limitation of not breaking at beams
> crossing a barline.

This would just require (I think) a revert of Han-Wen's commit
a6f65c52e2a20cd64067da45945e485d74ac3105.

See the attached patch.  What do you think?

Thanks,
Patrick

0001-At-line-breaks-break-beams-by-default.patch
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