Hi Joe, You may already be aware of this issue, but I'll report it anyway.
I'm currently typesetting a piece that should comfortably fit two systems to a page. For consistency's sake I've added system-count = 2 in the \layout block. I've added a minimalish file atthe bottom of this message. When I compile it I get the following output: ,---- | lilypond /home/cameron/temp/systemcount.ly | GNU LilyPond 2.13.2 | Processing `/home/cameron/temp/systemcount.ly' | Parsing... | Interpreting music... [8][16][24][32][40][48][56][64][72][80][88][96] | Preprocessing graphical objects... | Calculating line breaks... | warning: cannot find line breaking that satisfies constraints | Drawing systems... | Solving 1 page-breaking chunks...[1: 1 or 2 pages] | Drawing systems... | Layout output to `systemcount.ps'... | Converting to `./systemcount.pdf'... | | Compilation finished at Tue Jul 21 09:53:19 `---- With system-count = 2 I notice several things: 1) I never get more than three systems. The third system will simply run off the page. Experimentation with other values for system-count suggests the total number of systems in the piece will be the specified system-count plus one and the final system will not line break. 2) If there is a lot of room on the page the third system will appear on the first page anyway. Try commenting the << and >> out to see what I mean. 3) If I unset system-count, everything works normally. Here's a somewhat minimal example of a file that displays this: ------------------8<--------------------- \version "2.13.2" notes = \relative c''{ \repeat unfold 100 {a b c d} } \score{ \new GrandStaff{ << \new Staff{ \notes } \new Staff{ \notes } \new Staff{ \notes } \new Staff{ \notes } \new Staff{ \notes } >> } \layout{ system-count = 2 } } ------------------8<--------------------- Hope this helps, -- Cameron Horsburgh Blog: http://spiritcry.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel