Re: Strange vertical spacing now (2.9.28) with breakbefore = ##t

[Joe Neeman]

On 11/4/06, Arvid Grøtting <address@hidden> wrote:
> The spacing is much better now, but it still gets strange in some
> not-too-contrived cases:
>
> \version "2.9.19"
>
> #(set-global-staff-size 18)
>
> \header {
>   title = "breakbefore spacing test"
>   subtitle = "breakbefore = ##t still causes problems"
>   piece = "Test"
>
>   texidoc = "Score blocks seem to be badly influenced by neighboring
> score blocks (or book titles) that have little or no vertical extent.
> This problem only shows up with breakbefore = ##t and multiple staffs.
>
> Visually, it looks like the vertical spacing is influenced by
> surrounding pages even when those pages belong to a different piece
> and there is a forced page break between pieces.


This is because the page breaking algorithm tries to ensure that adjacent
pages have similar vertical spacing (removing this code gives the results
you expected). I'll see what happens if I just remove this behaviour (the
line breaker does it, but the old page breaker didn't).

Ideally, this \book should contain a book title, a number of
> identical-looking scores and finally the last, very small score.