On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Urs Liska [via Lilypond] <
ml-node+s1069038n202184...@n5.nabble.com> wrote:
>
>
> Am 11.04.2017 um 20:46 schrieb Malte Meyn:
> >
> > Am 11.04.2017 um 20:36 schrieb Urs Liska:
> >> So, is there any moment in the compilation process where the natural,
> >> unstretched length of a measure can be calculated? It doesn't have to
> be
> >> an easily-read property and can involve calculation, but actually the x
> >> position of the barlines would be an easy target - *if* there's this
> >> magic moment in the compilation pipeline ;-)
> > Maybe you could experiment with the ly:one-line-breaking?
>
> I don't think so (only, of course, to investigate how much can be done
> on the internal level).
> Basically what I'm after is a ly:cheap-line-breaking mode that doesn't
> care at all about overall appearance or good page turns but instead
> simply places as many measures in a line as fit naturally. If then a
> line break changes and I know the natural width of the measures I can
> determine before compilation how many measures will fit on the *next*
> system.
>
Does ragged-right = ##t not do what you want (at least in terms of
displaying the natural measure widths)?
Best,
Abraham
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