Dear Alexander,
thanks so much!
--
Orm
Am Wednesday, den 09. December 2009 um 13:07:06 Uhr (+0100) schrieb Alexander
Kobel:
> Orm Finnendahl wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm arranging piano parts for optimal page turning and have a lot of
>> trouble getting it right by tweaking system sizes, inserting \break
>> and \nobreak, adjusting system-count, recompiling and hoping that this
>> time the pages break at the right place [...]
>
> Hi.
>
> Of course there's this optimal-page-turning break algorithm, but I never
> tried it myself. See Notation Reference, section 4.3.4.
> But if you have (or want) to manually adjust breaks all over the place
> anyway, it might be the easiest way to forbid automatic breaks at all.
> I'd try forbidding page breaks first; if that's not enough, you can also
> disallow line breaks. You can also define shortcuts for the overrides,
> and switch the automatics on and off during the piece.
>
> forcedBreaks = {
> % \override Score . NonMusicalPaperColumn #'line-break-permission = ##f
> \override Score . NonMusicalPaperColumn #'page-break-permission = ##f
>
> %% Work here ...
> s1*4 \break
> s1*4 \pageBreak
>
> %% Don't let the rest of the score collide where you didn't specify
> breaks yet
> % \override Score . NonMusicalPaperColumn #'line-break-permission = ##t
> \override Score . NonMusicalPaperColumn #'page-break-permission = ##t
> }
>
> \score {
> <<
> %% add \forcedBreaks somewhere here, either in some voice or, e.g.,
> with
> \new Devnull \forcedBreaks
> >>
> \layout {}
> }
>
> I almost always use this during the writing of the score, before the
> final layout steps, so that I have the breaks at the same positions as
> in my template.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Alexander
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