#### 4.6.4 Line breaking

Line breaks are normally computed automatically. They are chosen such that lines look neither cramped nor loose, and that consecutive lines have similar density.

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. 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 point.

For line breaks at regular intervals use `\break` separated by skips and repeated with `\repeat`:

         <<  \repeat unfold 7 {
                  s1 \noBreak s1 \noBreak
                  s1 \noBreak s1 \break  }
            the real music
         >>

This makes the following 28 measures (assuming 4/4 time) be broken every 4 measures, and only there.

##### Predefined commands

`\break`, and `\noBreak`.

##### See also

Internals: BreakEvent.

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