Re: warning: compressing over-full page by 12.4 staff-spaces

[David Kastrup]

Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 14.11.2014 17:20, schrieb David Kastrup:
>> What's up with
>>
>>      warning: compressing over-full page by 12.4 staff-spaces
>>
>> here?  There is more than enough space to put one system more to the
>> next page, and 12 staff spaces?
>>
>> Page breaks are supposed to be done with full skylines, aren't they?
>> Sorry for the entirely non-minimal example here.  I have no idea how to
>> boil this down to fit, but this is not a bug report (yet?).  I just want
>> input on whether something like this can reasonably be expected to
>> happen, and if so why, or whether this is indeed bug report country.
>>
>> Not including the PDF because of 800kB size.  Ugh.
>
> Using
>
> max-systems-per-page = 6
>
>
> gives no warning and a much better output.

I find that

\paper {
  ragged-last-bottom = ##f
}

works rather well here, making both pages look good.  But the question
remains: why does LilyPond create a seriously overfull page in the
unmodified case?

-- 
David Kastrup