Re: Vertical space page layout

[Graham Percival]

I hope that you realize that 2.11.65 is an UNSTABLE, DEVELOPMENT
release not suitable for end-users.  Normal users should be
engraving with lilypond 2.12.3.

That said, the vertical spacing has been changed a lot in 2.13;
you will probably find that 2.13.11 is a lot better.  However,
this is still an UNSTABLE, DEVELOPMENT version.  There are known
bugs which were introduced since 2.12.3.  If you try it and
encounter a bug, please check to see if we already know about the
bug before reporting it.

Cheers,
- Graham

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:09:28AM +0000, Didi Kanjahn wrote:
> I frequently have a problem with Lilypond (version 2.11.65) regarding its
> calculation of what fits on one page.
> 
> All files mentioned and otherwise needed can be supplied.
> 
> This is an example how I currently get 2 songs on 2 instead of 3 pages:
> 
> 1) I set the bottom margin to -1.8cm (in the file 150-1.ly)
> 
> 2) I make sure the pagebreak in line 19 of 150.ly is not set
> 
> 3) I compile 150-1.ly
> 
> 4) of the result (lily1.gif) I use page 1 and discard page 2 and 3
> 
> 5) I set the pagebreak in line 19 of 150.ly
> 
> 6) of the result (lily2.gif) I use page 3 and discard page 1 and 2
> 
> In this way I can achieve having the two songs on two pages which is obviously
> possible, but which Lilypond does not calculate correctly on its own.
> 
> If I set the bottom margin to the more resonable 1cm I don't get enough on 
> page
> 1 (see lily3.gif) and I still get 3 pages. For many of my 160 pieces I had to
> set the bottom margin to values of down to -4cm to get lilypond to still place
> everything onto a single page. I wish this could be rectified to make page
> layout easier:-) There is another project with several hundred songs coming 
> up...
> 
> 
> 
> 
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