Hi Graham, > I think that manual breaks are the easiest solution. You could > separate it into distinct \bookparts, but that would be much more work > than manually adding \break and \pageBreak.
OK... =\ No disrespect meant to anyone, in particular Joe who has done a fabulous job increasing the flexibility and scope of the spacing code… but: MAO MAO-ING MAO, can we please resolve these spacing issues ASAP? Are we really comfortable telling people -- especially newbies -- that, in order to have Lilypond output good-looking scores, they have to: 1. manually insert breaks in the music (ruining the separation of content from presentation, unless they use \tag which is stupid MAO-ing overkill); or, 2. manually insert breaks in some score-specific variable with skips that they have to count and keep synchronized with the music? Oh, and p.s. Noob: manually inserting \pageBreaks does not, by itself, guarantee that Lilypond will actually break pages *only* there: you also have to mess around with the mao-ing #'page-break-permission, and maybe something else we've forgotten to warn you about. Sorry for the rant -- I blame the deadline pressure -- but it really is a bit ludicrous, and does not give Lilypond the best possible chance of impressing anyone out of the box. If this issue isn't on your "critical 2.14-killer" list, it should be. Cheers, Kieren. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
