On 4/7/06, Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I don't think TeX has to deal with this problem because each paragraph is
> self-contained. In LilyPond, every line affects every other line. (This is
> just an initial reaction. It might change after I read the TeXbook.)
> Therefore penalties in TeX cause less instability than penalties in LilyPond.
> Or at least they only cause local instability.

Paragraphs are self-contained, and TeX chooses doesn't format the
whole document before choosing page breaks (as I recall, it looks only
a little past optimal page length before choosing a page break).

David


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