Greetings all,
I have a question about preventing automatic page breaks and only using manual
page breaks. I'm working on a large file (72 pages) that has 1-3 separate
fiddle tunes per page. Each tune is in a separate file that I include in the
main file like this:
% page 1
\include "TuneA.ly"
\include "TuneB.ly"
\pageBreak
% page 2
\include "TuneC.ly"
\include "TuneD.ly"
\include "TuneE.ly"
\pageBreak
Each tune file has its own \score block that contains the music (stored in
variables) and the header info for each tune.
I only want page breaks where I manually put them in the main file, but
LilyPond occasionally puts them in the middle of a tune when the vertical
spacing gets tight on a given page.
I tried putting each page in a \bookpart[1] or \book block, but this doesn't
work because of the variables in each tune file which apparently can't appear
inside of these blocks. For example, this won't work:
\bookpart {
melodyA = { a b c d }
\score { \new Staff \melodyA }
\score { \new Staff { e f g } }
}
[1] http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/page-breaking
I tried to force only manual page breaks by overriding page-break-permission in
the top-level layout block in the main file:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.18/Documentation/notation/explicit-breaks
But that didn't solve the problem. I think it's because of interference with
ragged-bottom = ##t Here is a minimal example:
\version "2.18.0"
\paper {
% ragged-bottom = ##t
}
\layout {
\override NonMusicalPaperColumn.page-break-permission = ##f
}
music = \relative f' {
c1 c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c
c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c
}
\score { \music }
\score { \music }
\score { \music }
\score { \music }
\pageBreak
\score { \music }
\score { \music }
\score { \music }
\score { \music }
\pageBreak
\score { \music }
\score { \music }
\score { \music }
\score { \music }
\pageBreak
If ragged-bottom = ##t is commented out the manual page breaks work as
expected. Well, except for the last one, where the 3rd page runs over onto a
fourth (so that's an issue in itself). With ragged-bottom = ##t there are
only two scores per page until the last two pages where there are 3.5 scores
and 0.5 scores.
I'm using ragged-bottom for pages that are not that full where I don't want the
scores stretched vertically to fill the page, leaving too much space between
each staff. However, it seems you can't have ragged-bottom and force only
manual page breaks at the same time?
Any advice or suggestions appreciated. This is my first time working on this
kind of thing.
-Paul
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