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Line break
Line breaks are normally computed automatically. They are chosen such that the resulting spacing has low variation, and looks neither cramped nor loose.
Occasionally you might want to override the automatic breaks; you can do
this by specifying \break. This will force a line break at this
point. Do remember that line breaks can only occur at places where there
are bar lines. If you want to have a line break where there is no
bar line, you can force an invisible bar line by entering \bar
"". Similarly, \noBreak forbids a line break at a certain point.
The \break and \noBreak commands are defined in terms of
the penalty command:
\penalty int
This encourages or discourages LilyPond to make a line break at this point.
BUGS
The scaling of the \penalty argument is not well-defined. The
command is rather kludgey, and slated for rewriting.
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Copyright (c) 1997--2001 Han-Wen Nienhuys and Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
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