I got a decent spacing using a combination of a quite large spacing increment for SpacingSpanner and increased staff padding. Looks great now.
Thanks for the help! Neil On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 00:12 +0000, Neil Puttock wrote: > > 2008/11/24 Joe Neeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > It's a little hard to tell without an example, but it sounds like > > > lilypond is refusing to give things more space because that would make > > > for a bad page turn. The page-turn-breaking function treats the > > > page-turns with higher priority than anything else, even if the > > > horizontal spacing is really bad. However, it should still use the > > > horizontal spacing settings to choose a good configuration. Does adding > > > \allowPageTurn in appropriate places help? > > > > Should the Page_turn_engraver be \consist-ed when using > > ly:page-turn-breaking? Though it's not mentioned in the docs, all the > > relevant regtests include it, and having tested it myself, the spacing > > variables seem to work fine so long as the engraver's included. > > The purpose of the Page_turn_engraver is to automatically insert > \applyPageTurn in appropriate places. You will want either to use > Page_turn_engraver or to manually specify where page turns are allowed. > It's been a while since I looked at those docs, but I'm pretty sure this > is mentioned somewhere. > > Joe > > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > -- Neil Thornock, D.M. Assistant Professor of Music Composition/Theory Brigham Young University http://neilthornock.net
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