I’m getting close to finished with my first Lilypond project, a book of
some 30 scores. I tried building the `\book` section piecemeal,
including a handful of scores and tweaking the page breaks, and then
another batch, and so on.
\book {
\scoreI
\pageBreak
\scoreII
\pageBreak
\scoreIII
\pageBreak
\scoreIV
\scoreV
\pageBreak
…
\pageBreak
\scoreXXXI
\scoreXXXII
\pageBreak
\scoreXXXIII
\paper { min-systems-per-page = 2 }
\scoreXXXIV
}
The weird thing is, if I comment out all a few `\scoreX` statements, the
page breaks fall where I want them. But when I compile the whole book at
once, some scores start to stretch across multiple pages in ugly ways.
I have tried tweaking with lines like
\paper { max-systems-per-page = 8 min-systems-per-page = 5 }
in strategic places, but that still fails when I add enough scores.
(It looks like perhaps using `\bookpart` around chunks of the book might
help, but that re-prints the book header when I don’t want it to, and I’m
not seeing how to suppress that.)
It’s hard to give a minimal example without publishing my whole project in
public.
—Joel
