Hi,
When writing a multiple movement piece, using a \book of \scores, it happens
that you want to control page breaking quite massively to avoid bad page
turns.
One problem occurs when a movement is just a little bit too big for one page,
and I want it to fill out two pages.
The current behaviour, is to typeset the music in a minimal number of staves,
and then space out those staves evenly on the two pages. IMHO, it would often
look nicer to spread out the music over a larger number of staves in these
cases.
The following is an extreme example of this:
\book {
\score {
\relative {\repeat unfold 46 c32 \bar ":" \repeat unfold 51 d32 \bar ":"
\pageBreak c4
}}}
This is indeed a very unrealistic example, but shows the principle. The score
uses 2 staves for the first page, but it would IMHO look a lot nicer if it
would use 3.
This is of course achievable by adding \breaks manually, but my suggestion is
to add a property for a threshold value that somehow controls an upper bound
of how tightly spaced a staff can be. This could e.g. be the minimum
horizontal distance between notes, but I guess there could exist more logical
variables as well.
I can't recall anyone saying anything about this feature, and I can't find it
in the manual, so I suppose it doesn't exist. If it does, perhaps it should
be mentioned in the docs, under global layout?
Erik
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