Darcy wrote, in part, enquiring:

> Do you mean that you would allow line breaks on some staves and not
> others?

I hadn't thought about that bit.  I was thinking more about a lengty text
expression that occurs several times in the same score, where in a couple
places it needs to be compressed by breaking the string in two, and stacking
the former part on top of the latter.  Upon selection of such an expression,
if it contains an embedded CR-LF, in the same dialog box as one presently
finds "allow individual positioning", one would also see an option "ignore
embedded CR-LF".  I suppose it could get really fancy, and be made to work
in conjunction with "allow individual positioning", but I'm not really
asking for that much.

> And what is the advantage over simply allowing line breaks in text
> expressions, *period*?  Where is the advantage over having two copies
> of the same expression, one with line breaks and one without?

Well, first and foremost I'd like to see the capability of linebreaks; if
the mechanism were introduced it's certainly feasible to create two
expressions, one without embedded CR-LF's, and the other one with, and use
the appropriate one at each point.  However, as I like to think of myself as
a frugal individual, if a switch can be set so that these are ignored in
some places, but not in others, then one can get by with one expression
instead of two.

ns

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