On Mon 01 May 2017 at 21:31:15 (+0200), Simon Albrecht wrote: > Am 01.05.2017 um 20:37 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: > >Hello all, > > > >In v2.19.59, I’m using > > > > page-breaking = #ly:minimal-breaking > > page-count = 10 > > systems-per-page = 2 > > > >… and the output has 16 pages, 14 of which contain one system (2 pages have > >2 systems each). > > > >As I misunderstanding and/or misusing these features? > > I’ve never used the minimal-breaking algorithm, so this is of > limited value, but: The default algorithm handles systems-per-page > with some flexibility, so e.g. > system-count = 15 > systems-per-page = 4 > will likely result in one page having only 3 systems without any > warning given. > However, page-count has always been strictly obeyed in my scores, so > at least that would qualify as a bug, I think.
I find that page-count can be disruptive; ie a score that looks good on three pages will sometimes, given page-count=3, produce two relatively slack pages followed by one very tight one. > I take it that creating a minimal example will be very difficult? Quite! Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user