Re: Balloon fails with cross staff arpeggio

[Ralph Palmer]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Colin Campbell <address@hidden> wrote:

> Bertrand wrote:
> Example :
>
> \version "2.15"
> \new PianoStaff \with { \consists "Balloon_engraver" } <<
>  \set PianoStaff.connectArpeggios = ##t
>  { \balloonGrobText #'Arpeggio #'(-0.1 . 0) \markup "G.O." \repeat unfold 5
> a''\arpeggio }
>  { \repeat unfold 5 a\arpeggio } >>
>
> Regards,
> Bertrand
> ###########
>
> I've confirmed this as written with 2,12,3, 2.13.61 and 2.15.0.
> I've also discovered that setting \balloonLengthOn hels the collision with
> the
> time signature. The bigger change comes from removing Balloon_engraver from
> the
> PianoStaff and putting it into explicitley declared Voices.  This gives a
> partial
> balloon in the upper voice and a complete but probably wrongly-sized one in
> the
> lower.
>
> Bertrand's original example generates this message: "warning: vertical
> alignment called before line-breaking.", which appears in issue 341.
>
> Before raising an issue, would the devs have further advice and guidance
> for Bertrand and me?
>
> If it is indeed an issue, I would not call it a regression because it fails
> in 2.12.3 as well as current devel.
>
>
Greetings -

This may be two separate issues : the original "balloon fails" and the
"\balloonLengthOn" issue. It has been entered as issue 1657 :
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1657

Ralph