Re: setting the number of pages for a score

[Joe Neeman]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

> Joe Neeman wrote:
>
> > > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > You mean a Constrained_page_breaker without the 
> > Constrained_line_breaker? I think this still leaves a couple problems. 
>
>
> No, with both: allow the user to set both a number of systems and a 
> number of pages, separately.

Ah, ok. I think I can adapt my current page-break algorithm to do that 
without much trouble. But for today, I'll send the non-constrained page 
breaker just so people can catch design flaws early.