Pagebreak in lilypond-book (was: 2.6 release)

[Graham Percival]

On 4-May-05, at 3:53 PM, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Graham Percival wrote:
> > Different circumstances -- I've got a four-page piece with only one 
> > rest that's near the midway
> > point.  I'd like to force a pagebreak at that rest to allow for page 
> > turning.
>
> I still don't understand. Why are you using lilypond-book?

I've got a few collections of pieces created in the 2.2 days, well 
before \book.  I
spent many hours on the LaTeX formatting and macros, so I'd rather keep 
it as
lilypond-book.

An alternative would be to use \book for each piece individually, 
keeping the
headers in LaTeX.  Currently \book forces a newpage, so I'd need to 
turn that
off somehow.

>  If you force a page-break, Latex (depending on page size settings) 
> could put that system on a single page or commit other atrocities.

True, but LilyPond can commit similar atrocities.  That's what 
proofreading is for.  :)
I know that manual breaks are often a bad idea, but this piece only has 
two rests
to turn pages, so I need to force a pagebreak at one of those rests.

>  You should have better results if you use \book; inside a 
> lilypond-book document, \book will output each page as a single .eps , 
> so \pageBreak will probably work.

What if I use an embedded LaTeX \newpage?

lilypond-book produces a .tex file that includes a "whole piece" .tex 
file.  That
"whole piece" .tex file includes many .eps files.  If there's a
\markup{ \\newpage }
halfway through the .ly file, wouldn't it end up halfway through the 
.eps files ?
or would it end up at the beginning or end of the .eps files?


Alternatively I could try to redefine \betweenLilyPondSystem so that it 
acts
like normal for most of the time, but does a \newpage when it gets to 
number 7.
That seems like a much worse solution than figuring out how to make
\pageBreak (or even defining a new \lpbookPageBreak macro) work
in lilypond-book.

Cheers,
- Graham