Re: Layout going screwy

[Raphael Mankin]

On 04/09/2024 11:15, David Kastrup wrote:
> Raphael Mankin <raph@mankin.org.uk> writes:
>
> > For reasons that not concern us I am  re-typing Cole Porter's Anything
> > Goes. I get as far as the key change after bar 20 but then the layout
> > goes wild: no bar numbers, line breaks fail, stray bar on the end.
> >
> > I have checked and double checked this, but I cannot see what is
> > wrong. Any help will be appreciated.
> >
> > See attachments
>
> I just placed a bar check | before each of your % Bar xxx comments (why
> keep this important information from LilyPond by hiding it away in a
> comment) and got the first bar check warning between those lines:
>
> |  %Bar 11
>    r4 g8. a16 b8. a16. g4
>    b4 c8 d8~ d4 r4
>    c2. g4
> |  % Bar14
>
> It's easy to see that the a16. is not matched by anything else producing
> an odd multiple of a 1/32 note.

I was looking for those,  but missed that one

Thank you. An extra pair of eyes etc..
> So from that point on, there always is a note crossing any bar line and
> LilyPond refrains from breaking in the middle of a note.
>
> Use bar checks.

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