Re: Vertical spacing on big systems

2008-09-15 Thread Michael Käppler
Hi Nicolas, I've collected some raw data about estimated extents and real ones one various scores. I still have to study them, maybe a more suitable amount of reserved space will emerge. that would be nice... Maybe it's also possible to cook a patch that makes lilypond collect that information

Re: Vertical spacing on big systems

2008-09-15 Thread Joe Neeman
On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 11:47 +0200, Michael Käppler wrote: Hi Nicolas, I've collected some raw data about estimated extents and real ones one various scores. I still have to study them, maybe a more suitable amount of reserved space will emerge. that would be nice... Maybe it's also

Re: Vertical spacing on big systems

2008-09-14 Thread Michael Käppler
Hi Patrick, sure, this would be a workaround, but one can hardly call it a solution... Actually. it doesn't change the fact that there is enough space to fit both systems on one page, even with the larger page-top-space. But for some unknown reason Lilypond decides differently. However, as

Re: Vertical spacing on big systems

2008-09-13 Thread Michael Käppler
Hi Reinhold, You might try to comment out (or at least reduce) these 10% of reserved space and see if you run into any staff collisions (which I don't think should happen, but then I haven't dug deep enought for this staff!). I removed the additional security space completely for testing,

Re: Vertical spacing on big systems

2008-09-13 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hi Michael, On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 03:13:47PM +0200, Michael Käppler wrote: I removed the additional security space completely for testing, but nothing happens. What am I missing? layout-page-layout.scm is attached. I tried the same thing as you with the same results. After considering

Re: Vertical spacing on big systems

2008-09-13 Thread Patrick McCarty
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 06:33:52PM +0200, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_K=E4ppler_ wrote: Hi all, I'm having some trouble to get LilyPond to put two systems on a page without forcing that in the following example. (It's pretty long, sorry for that) I don't really understand why Lily puts each

Vertical spacing on big systems

2008-09-12 Thread Michael Käppler
Hi all, I'm having some trouble to get LilyPond to put two systems on a page without forcing that in the following example. (It's pretty long, sorry for that) I don't really understand why Lily puts each system on one page though there is really enough free space on the first page. Any hints?

Re: Vertical spacing on big systems

2008-09-12 Thread Reinhold Kainhofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Freitag, 12. September 2008 schrieb Michael Käppler: Hi all, I'm having some trouble to get LilyPond to put two systems on a page without forcing that in the following example. (It's pretty long, sorry for that) I don't really understand why

Re: Vertical spacing on big systems

2008-09-12 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hi Reinhold, On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, Lilypond wastes 10% of the vertical space on each page. You have 98 left, but lilypond reserves a little less than 20 units for possible rounding errors when calculating the staff spacings (yes, I