I tried playing around with base-shortest-duration earlier, and it didn't help. Pasted Kevin's text to make sure, and nothing changed.
-Ahanu On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 3:48 AM Kevin Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ahanu, > > It might help if you add this: > \layout { > \context { > \Score > \override SpacingSpanner.base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment > 1/32) > } > } > It might make LilyPond more willing to squash sixteenths closer together > than it would normally like. > > Kevin > > On Sun, 2020-08-09 at 02:48 -0400, Ahanu Banerjee wrote: > > I tried setting systems-per-page to 10. It gave the same error as > > setting system-count to 20, and ran off the page. > > 3 measures per line is less than ideal, but it's readable. I'm > typesetting an etude book and am trying to avoid having fold-out pages > as much as possible. > > > On Sun, Aug 9, 2020, 02:41 Hwaen Ch'uqi <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings Ahanu, > > What happens if you set the systems-per-page variable to 10 instead > of > using system-count = 20? Does the music then spill over onto a third > page? Just from experience, it seems that 48 sixteenth-notes per > line > would get rather cramped, no? I usually use 32-40 16ths per line as > my > guide. > > Hwaen Ch'uqi > > > On 8/9/20, Ahanu Banerjee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > An étude I'm typesetting needs to fit on 2 pages with reasonable > vertical > > space. Normally, I'd just set system-count in \paper (in this > case, 20 > > systems in 2 US letter pages), but this time it says "warning: > cannot find > > line breaking that satisfies constraints" and just runs off the > page. If I > > don't set system-count, it gives me 25 cramped systems on 2 pages. > > > > The piece is almost entirely sixteenth notes in 4/4. Some systems > fill with > > 3 bars, others with 2, and I can't figure out why. Ideally, most > would have > > 3 bars, but manual line breaks won't fix it. I've checked for > rhythmic > > errors (every measure has a barcheck) and didn't find any. I don't > want to > > decrease the font size. > > > > Unfortunately, I can't come up with a tiny example to demonstrate > this > > behaviour. If anyone has suggestions or someone would be willing > to look > > over my file, I'd really appreciate it. > > > > Cheers, > > -Ahanu > > > >
