I've noticed this problem as well. I had assumed it was some mistake I'd
made in my stylesheet, but I'm still baffled after hours of debugging. It
would be sort of a relief if it's actually a bug.
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 8:38 AM, fbous <f.n.a.b...@me.com> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I have a rather large project,with orchestra, choir, etc., where layouting
> the vocal score gives me headaches. I usually have four or five staffs per
> system (SATB plus one soloist) but some parts have more (up to 13 staffs
> per
> system). I use extra dynamic lines to print rehearsal- and metronome marks.
>
> My problem is, that lilypond produces a bunch of consecutive half full
> pages
> (see attached image), sometimes it even prints only one system per page,
> although there should be enough space for three systems most of the time.
>
> I tried the annotate-spacing option and noticed that the extent-estimate is
> about half of the time a lot larger than the final resulting vertical
> extent. I looked through the score, but could not find any pattern as to
> when exactly a bad estimate occurs. The problem does disappear, though, if
> I
> move the Mark_engraver and the Metronome_mark_engraver back to the score
> context
>
> Unfortunately min-systems-per-page does not work for me, due to the highly
> varying number of staffs per system. Something like min-staffs-per-page
> would be useful for me, but I could not find such a thing. Does anyone
> know,
> how I can tell lilypond to squeeze more systems on the page?
>
> For the vocal score I use a global staff size of 13.5 (a4paper) and the
> layout settings below.
> \layout{
> \context {
> \Score
> \remove Mark_engraver
> \remove Metronome_mark_engraver
> \override Beam.breakable = ##t
> \override Hairpin #'minimum-length = #7
> \override Glissando #'minimum-length = #7
> \override Glissando.springs-and-rods =
> #ly:spanner::set-spacing-rods
> \compressFullBarRests
> }
> \context {
> \Dynamics
> \consists Output_property_engraver
> \consists Axis_group_engraver
> \consists Mark_engraver
> \consists Metronome_mark_engraver
> \override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-empty = ##t
> \override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-layer = #'any
> \override VerticalAxisGroup.staff-affinity = #CENTER
> }
> \context {
> \Staff
> \override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-empty = ##t
> \override VerticalAxisGroup.remove-layer = #'any
> }
> \context {
> \StaffGroup
> \consists "Keep_alive_together_engraver"
> }
> \context {
> \ChoirStaff
> \consists "Keep_alive_together_engraver"
> }
> \context {
> \Voice
> \remove "Note_heads_engraver"
> \consists "Completion_heads_engraver"
> \remove "Rest_engraver"
> \consists "Completion_rest_engraver"
> }
> }
> <http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/file/t5500/lilypond.png>
>
>
>
>
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