Re: line breaks and broken beams

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:

>>> 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.

Is there a way to slightly penalize it rather than prohibiting it
completely or being completely unconcerned?

-- 
David Kastrup