Re: Page breaking and squeezing as many systems on a page as possible?

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2009 19:01:46 schrieb Joe Neeman:
> On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 12:22 +0200, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > On the first page there is more than enough space to add a fourth system,
> > but it seems that lilypond doesn't want to put one more system there (all
> > other pages already have four systems, and the very last page 9 has one
> > system left, so moving one more system to the first page finish my
> > current task).
>
> It might be that by moving the extra system on the first page, the
> spacing gets messed up elsewhere. Due to the fact that the systems vary
> in height, maybe it isn't possible just to move the first system on each
> page back to the previous page.

The same problem also appears when I only typeset the Kyrie, which fits on the 
first two pages: The first page has three systems and more then enough space to 
hold a fourth system, the remaining three systems are on the second page:
http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~reinhold/LilyPond/Pembaur_VierteLateinischeMesse_ChoralScore_Kyrie.pdf


> As you noted in a later email, the Y-extent-estimates are somewhat too
> large (this is probably because the treble clefs overlap the lyrics when
> they are spaced accurately using skylines, but not when the estimates
> are done). You can compensate for this by setting the
> page-breaking-between-system-padding to something small (or negative);
> see the NR section on \paper variables.

Yes, that works to get four systems on the first page. But strangely, in this 
case the system breaking is different, so that the Kyrie takes one more system 
and I again end up with 9 pages (which doesn't work for booklet printing):
http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~reinhold/LilyPond/Pembaur_VierteLateinischeMesse_ChoralScore_spacing.pdf

Compare this to the former version without page-breaking-between-system-
padding, where the Kyrie has only 5 systems (the remaining pieces stayed the 
same):
http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~reinhold/LilyPond/Pembaur_VierteLateinischeMesse_ChoralScore.pdf

I'm really at loss how to force lilypond to use 8 pages for this score.

Cheers,
Reinhold

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Reinhold Kainhofer, address@hidden, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
 * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
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