----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Austin" <markaustinmor...@gmail.com>
To: <lilypond-user@gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: Is pagination quadratic?
On 11 April 2011 18:13, Valentin Villenave <valen...@villenave.net> wrote:
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Victor Eijkhout <vic...@eijkhout.net>
wrote:
So now I have this exercise study that generates close to 2000 scales
like "\relative c { a b c d e f g a g f e d c b a}". And "finding the
ideal number of pages" takes an ungodly amount of time. Minutes.
Probably over 10.
That's to be expected: page-breaking is *the* most time-consuming
process in LilyPond. Using
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/minimal-page-breaking
should be fine and harmless in this specific case.
(On an unrelated note, I recently found that refreshing large PDF
documents takes forever when point-and-click is enabled.)
Is it possible to switch of pagination completely, and rely on manual
breaks? To put this in context, I'm compling a book of folk tunes.
These tend to be 2-4 (very rarely more) lines long. I'd like them in
alphabetical order, but with individual tunes not split over pages,
and wouldn't mind a layout rather more cramped than Lilypond usually
likes. As it is, even with minimal page breaking, I end up shuffling
tunes around to improve the layout
--
Mark Austin
This prevents page breaking. I assume it stops the calculation, but can't
be sure:
\override NonMusicalPaperColumn #'page-break-permission = ##f"
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Phil Holmes
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