On Tue, Dec 23, 2025, 7:40 AM Gabriel Ellsworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am having some trouble with spacing around the footer of my page. > > The bracket of my ChoirStaff is overlapping with the page number (“2”). > Screenshot: > <Snip> I believe if you look at your output log you will see a warning that you have an overfull page. If there is no such warning, the following paragraph doesn't apply. This means you are trying to fit more music on the page than can fit. So LilyPond squeezes things together and ends up with overlapping notation. To fix this, you can either reduce the number of systems on this page (perhaps with a manual page break, or perhaps by removing whatever is preventing LilyPond from automatically inserting a page break), or you can adjust the spacing within the system to make each system take a little bit less vertical space. > > > My hypothesis about what is going wrong: LilyPond treats the bottom line > of the tenor/bass staff as the lower bound of my ChoirStaff — instead of > looking at the lowermost point/tip of the bracket. Is there any way to make > it do the latter when laying out the page? > As I mentioned above, I think that your file is breaking LilyPond's page layout, rather than having LilyPond decide the collision is no problem. HTH, Carl >
