Re: Page and line penalties

[Joe Neeman]

On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 20:02, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Juergen Reuter wrote:
> > Maybe I am totally wrong, but this discussion reminds me of an issue
> > that I raised on Nov 18, last year; see the thread starting here:
> >
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2005-11/msg00088.html
> >
> > I am mentioning this thread just in case that you are looking for
> > interesting test examples.
>
> This is really something different. To solve this, we should rather
> introduce some convexity in the penalties, so one perfect plus two
> extremes is much worse than three so-so lines.

In constrained-breaking, I use the square of the force rather than its 
absolute value -- I made the change for precisely this reason.