Re: Odd layout choices

2014-09-15 Thread Guy Stalnaker
No longer baffling :-) Using the min-systems-per-page option forced LP to put the systems on the same page and it is clear, when it does so, why its default fitting algorithm does not! It appears to be the non-musical elements that are interfering with things. I still had to play with margins, etc.

Re: Odd layout choices

2014-09-15 Thread Guy Stalnaker
​Simon, Thanks for the reply. I apologize for forgetting to rename the "bad" pdf before futzing with the margins to get the piece back to two systems per page. You have provided me another option which I will explore. Here is link to how the piece looks with the original margins: https://www.drop

Re: Odd layout choices

2014-09-15 Thread Simon Albrecht
Am 15.09.2014 um 21:41 schrieb Guy Stalnaker: All, Sometimes Lilypond changes how it does its "Fitting music on ..." calculations when it decides what can fit on a page and what cannot. In this case, after four pages on which the "fitting" process puts two systems per page, the subsequent pa

Odd layout choices

2014-09-15 Thread Guy Stalnaker
All, Sometimes Lilypond changes how it does its "Fitting music on ..." calculations when it decides what can fit on a page and what cannot. In this case, after four pages on which the "fitting" process puts two systems per page, the subsequent pages *all* have only one system per page--even t