Also make sure you are aware of the system-count property available. Generally I set the between-system-padding to 1 (to negate it) then just adjust the between-system-space and system-count parameters until the music is nicely flowed down the whole page. (between-system-padding comes into play more on subequent pages)
try/experiment with these parameters added to the \paper and \layout blocks: \paper { between-system-padding = #1 between-system-space = #10 % adjust to taste } \layout { ragged-right = ##f ragged-last = ##f ragged-bottom = ##t ragged-last-bottom = ##t system-count = #5 % adjust to taste } Adjusting these settings you will discover the point where it "pops" onto 2 pages, then just back off from there to get it all on one page. (of coure if staff and font sizes allow it all on one page) Rick OnionRingOfDoom wrote: > > When I added the title of the piece in what used to be a single page of > music, lilypond decided to split the piece into two pages with each line > of music being spaced very far apart. Previously I had been using this > code in order to squeeze as much as I could onto one page without being > too crowded: > > \paper { > between-system-padding = #1 > ragged-bottom=##f > ragged-last-bottom=##f > } > > Now that this method has failed, is there any other way to ensure that my > music stays on a single page? > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Preventing-page-breaks-tf2309479.html#a6429791 Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user