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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