On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Keith E OHara <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:01:26 -0700, Nick wrote:
>
>  Actually, the vertical layout problem I reported a few weeks ago
>> (http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=1252) still exists
>> with 2.13.37.
>>
>
> The information in the bug tracker indicates that, when LilyPond plans how
> many systems to put on each page, she sometimes misunderestimates the space
> needed by rehearsal marks, and other such things that are logically outside
> the Staff context.  So we would expect sometimes the spacing algorithm will
> sometimes be asked to fit more on a page than is possible, especially in
> single-staff parts with volta repeats and marks.
>
> If we restrict our efforts to cases where .37 simply does a bad job
> arranging staves that *could* fit nicely on the page, such efforts should
> not be wasted.
>
>
> Now, a user might be pro-active and think,
> "Let me just tell LilyPond that I don't need her to try to pack so many
> staves on each page in this particular score:
>  system-system-spacing #'space = 20 % staff spaces  (or
> between-system-space = 25\mm in stable 2.12) "
>
> Alas! LilyPond does not change her page-break decisions based on our
> requested space (with any of the page-breaking algorithms) (though she does
> layout pages differently in response to between-system-padding).
>

system-system-spacing #'space will affect the page breaking starting in
2.13.38. In the meantime, you can use #'padding instead.

Cheers,
Joe
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