Hi Graham, For the record, I just added \pageBreaks where I want them... and Lilypond outputted 25 pages: it added 20 blank pages and scattered them amongst the 5 with actual music. MAO!!! =(
Kieren. On 2010-May-31, at 11:36, Kieren MacMillan wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
