Dan Eble <address@hidden> writes:
On Nov 21, 2014, at 04:53 , Urs Liska <address@hidden> wrote:
Am 21.11.2014 10:46, schrieb David Kastrup:
Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
I just read about the " ly:one-line-breaking" function and thought it
would be a good idea to have a "ly:one-page-breaking" complement for
it too.
This would produce a score with regular line length and paper width,
but on one long page.
So it would seem to me like we should likely be able to specify the page
breaking strategy (including none) and the line breaking strategy
(including none) independently.
Sorry, that's what I intended to say.
I meant that any displaying entity (say an editor like Frescobaldi)
could *decide* to use both options at the same time. But of course
they should not be tied together.
So, yes, this is two related but independent feature requests.
What are the page-height limitations of the output formats that would
be used? Will the displaying program handle a page that is 3m long
(10 A4 pages). What about 30m? What about other viewing programs
that might be used for debugging?
We do not appear particularly concerned about that with
ly:one-line-breaking and that one will result in quite larger
dimensions.
Will the displaying program have to render the whole page in one shot
and cache the output for display? It might be more practical to
produce a score with one variable-height page per system and have the
displaying program stitch them together. Then it could ignore pages
that are not on screen so as not to waste time or memory.
Setting systems-per-page to 1 is already feasible I think.