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Re: key change between repetition bars?
From: |
Kieren MacMillan |
Subject: |
Re: key change between repetition bars? |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:38:31 -0400 |
Hi Mats,
> Please note that LilyPond currently tries to do something clever, namely
> incorporating standard typesetting practice on how to typeset time and key
> signatures at a bar line. This typesetting practice is specified in the
> break-align-orders property of the BreakAlignment object, see
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/internals/breakalignment#BreakAlignment
>
> What you want to do is to break/extend these rules for a specific situation.
> The solution you propose is to make LilyPond much less clever which makes it
> easier to do a workaround for these few special situations but makes life
> much harder in all standard situations where you then would require the user
> to remember in which order to place things.
On the contrary: the addition of a user-settable property would make Lilypond
more clever, since it would already do what it does (which is clever) but would
easily allow specific workarounds (which makes it more clever).
Cheers,
Kieren.