Re: problems with cues

[David Kastrup]

Thomas Morley <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Mi., 11. Dez. 2019 um 15:16 Uhr schrieb David Kastrup <address@hidden>:
>>
>> "Peter Gentry" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > It seems that the issue reared its head as a result of my "erroneous"
>> > assumption that
>> >
>> > \book {
>> >
>> >      Page layout stuff for front page
>> >
>> > }
>> >
>> > \bookpart {
>> >
>> >     Header & music
>> >
>> > }
>> >
>> > \bookpart {
>> >
>> >     Header & music
>> >
>> > }
>> >
>> > Was a way to go.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Although this has worked over the years it doesn't today.
>>
>> A toplevel \bookpart belongs to the "default" book, and a toplevel \book
>> introduces a non-default book.
>>
>> Can someone with access to older versions check whether this was
>> different at some not-too-distant point of time in history?  If it was,
>> something intended to be a "refactoring" might have been an actual
>> change.  I am not ruling that out, but should be surprised if it were
>> so.
>
> I think bookparts were introduced with:
>
> commit dbefd4b8d0249c6a739d09118f3e0a71001c1c52
>
> Likely in 2.11.65, so obviously 2.10.33 can't cope with them, for
> 2.12.3 I can confirm David W's findings.

So for now I'd say that Peter's findings, troubling as they may appear,
cannot be traced to some fundamental unintended change of behavior of
LilyPond.  We'll definitely need something more definite and/or
reproducible to work with to propose any sensible remedy for the
problems he currently is encountering.

-- 
David Kastrup