On Sat, 2015-01-10 at 13:25 -0500, Ellen Schwindt wrote: > Thank you, Richard. > > I ended up taking out all the line breaks
I think you meant page breaks here? > which eliminated the spreading out problem, but does not allow me to > specify the page turn measures. yes, page breaks are for that. > It would be nice to be able to control how many measures are in a > particular system for this purpose. Or do others have a better way > around this problem? I haven't much experience with this, but I think you would start with no forced page breaks and then look near where the page has been broken by LilyPond for a good place - a better place than the one LilyPond has chosen. If the place you try forcing a page break at is too early then the music will have to be spread out, (since there is not so much music before this new place as there was before the old place). If you place it too late then it may not fit and you will end up with an extra page break inserted before the one you forced (and so very spread out music). But if you choose well, you may improve on the choice that LilyPond gave you. Things get even more involved if you want to change the smallest amount of system-to-system space that you are prepared to tolerate and so on, since then you will need to start over, removing all the manual page breaks and going through looking for better places to break the page (always working from the front to the back of your piece, since any page break you enter affects all the subsequent music layout). There are also ragged-bottom and ragged-last commands which allow pages to be less than full and a command to force the systems apart at one particular point in the music - not sure if those would be helpful for this sort of thing though. HTH Richard > I will use denemo for piano pieces a lot and then I almost always > want to be able to control page turns for my own sanity at the other > kind of keyboard :) > > thanks again, > > -Ellen > _______________________________________________ Denemo-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/denemo-devel
