Do you have ragged-last-bottom and ragged-bottom set to #f in your paper block? That would be the first thing I would try. Beyond that, some of the other tricks on this page might work if adapted:
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/changing-spacing > On Jun 27, 2026, at 11:06 AM, Eric Benson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have a large collection of short scores, most of which fit on one or two > pages. I'm trying to understand how to control page turns. I've added > explicit \pageBreak commands to some scores, but I would like to find a way > for LilyPond to balance the pages when it does automatic page breaking. That > is, if a score is, say, 9 systems long, I would like to put 5 systems on one > page and 4 systems on the other page, rather than 8 and 1 as it does now if I > don't intervene. I can add \allowPageTurn at appropriate places between > sections, but when I tried that I still got an 8 and 1 page split. Let's say > I have 4 sections of 2 or 3 pages each. I could indicate that these section > breaks are good spots for page breaks, but I still want page breaks to > balance content among the pages used, not add a page break for every section > break. > > Am I asking for a new feature or is this something I can do today?
