Re: setting the number of pages for a score

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Joe Neeman wrote:
> > The code looks good, I'm actually surprised at how simple it is!
> >
> > I expect that a full optimal page layout module is still far away, but 
> > we could roll out constrained line breaking relatively easily. For a 
> > lot of music, specifying a system count will make it easy to force a 
> > piece onto a number of pages, with a few well-placed \pageBreaks. Much 
> > easier than it is now anyway. What do you think?
>
>
> Yes, I think that might be possible without too much work. Maybe we 
> could allow the user to specify a global page-break-system-extent. We 
> then do the page breaking assuming all music systems have that Y-extent. 
> For 95% of the music I would use this for, that would be acceptable 
> since Y-extents don't vary too much. I think the main problem would be 
> if there are sections with more or less staves than other sections. But 
> this could work in the meantime.

Come to think of it, wouldn't it also be easy to make a 
Constrained_page_breaker, ie. a page-breaking routine that is 
constrained to put the final result in X pages? That still wouldn't be 
an optimal solution to the complete problem, but it would come a long 
way to automating the current page break tweaking hassle.

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