Re: newbie question: lilypond squeezes everything on 1 staff

[Jérémie Lumbroso]

RA> Here's my code. Suggestions much appreciated,
I don't really understand what's going on here, and I won't be
presumptuous enough to declare that it's a bug (though I do think that
measures with only whole notes should be a little more spaced).

You can force a line break in Lilypond by putting `\break':

  [...]
  
  lower =  \context Staff \notes\relative c,{
         r2            r8      < cis8( gis' > < d a' > < )dis ais' >
         < e1 b' > ~
         < e2 b' > ~ < e8 b' > < cis8 gis' > < d a' > < dis ais' >
         < e1 b' > ~
         < e2 b' > ~ < e8 b' > < dis8 ais' > < d a' > < cis gis' >  \break
         < c1 g' > ~
         < c2 g' > ~ < c8 g' > < cis8 gis' > < d a' > < dis ais' >
         r1
  }

  [...]

In the same manner, you can force Lilypond to not put a line break
with `\nobreak'.


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 Jérémie                            mailto:address@hidden