On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 5:13 AM, David Kastrup <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wilbert Berendsen <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Op donderdag 30 september 2010 schreef David:
> >
> >> With the current code, a score that used to take 5 pages now takes 8,
> >> really really spaced out.
> >>
> >> I don't see that we can release a version of Lilypond that takes up
> >> horrifically more space than the previous not-skyline-based code.
> >>
> >> Making use of the skyline instead of the bounding box should never lead
> >> to results taking more space.
> >
> > Strange, in my experience the spacing (esp vertically) is tighter and
> less
> > pages are used most times. (An engraving of all Goudimel psalms takes 141
> > pages in 2.13.10 and only 131 in 2.13.35.) May be something else is going
> on
> > in your score? A long time ago I had very strange horizontal spacing
> problems
> > (with large gaps) that went away when I used --disable-optimising at the
> > ./configure command line.
> >
> > best regards,
> > Wilbert Berendsen
>
> Don't get me wrong.  Something like
>
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
> \score { c }
>
> is indeed squeezed onto a single page even though it does not fit at all
> (it does not appear like any numbers of these scores will ever be put on
> two pages).
>

How long has this been a problem? It comes from page breaks being forbidden
all the way from the frontend, and I don't think that has been touched for a
while...
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