On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 23:45 +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Am Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2009 19:01:46 schrieb Joe Neeman: > > On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 12:22 +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > > > On the first page there is more than enough space to add a fourth system, > > > but it seems that lilypond doesn't want to put one more system there (all > > > other pages already have four systems, and the very last page 9 has one > > > system left, so moving one more system to the first page finish my > > > current task). > > > > It might be that by moving the extra system on the first page, the > > spacing gets messed up elsewhere. Due to the fact that the systems vary > > in height, maybe it isn't possible just to move the first system on each > > page back to the previous page. > > The same problem also appears when I only typeset the Kyrie, which fits on > the > first two pages: The first page has three systems and more then enough space > to > hold a fourth system, the remaining three systems are on the second page: > http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~reinhold/LilyPond/Pembaur_VierteLateinischeMesse_ChoralScore_Kyrie.pdf
This is puzzling; with ragged, we should favour more systems on earlier pages rather than keeping things balanced. Can you send me the input file? > > > > As you noted in a later email, the Y-extent-estimates are somewhat too > > large (this is probably because the treble clefs overlap the lyrics when > > they are spaced accurately using skylines, but not when the estimates > > are done). You can compensate for this by setting the > > page-breaking-between-system-padding to something small (or negative); > > see the NR section on \paper variables. > > Yes, that works to get four systems on the first page. But strangely, in this > case the system breaking is different, so that the Kyrie takes one more > system > and I again end up with 9 pages (which doesn't work for booklet printing): > http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~reinhold/LilyPond/Pembaur_VierteLateinischeMesse_ChoralScore_spacing.pdf If you unset ragged-bottom and ragged-last-bottom, lilypond will no longer be quite so happy to stick a system on a page by itself. > Compare this to the former version without page-breaking-between-system- > padding, where the Kyrie has only 5 systems (the remaining pieces stayed the > same): > http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~reinhold/LilyPond/Pembaur_VierteLateinischeMesse_ChoralScore.pdf > > I'm really at loss how to force lilypond to use 8 pages for this score. You can always set page-count. Joe _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
