Re: how to force one system per page

[Joe Neeman]

On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 15:55 -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
> Hello, all --
> 
> How do I force Lilypond 2.9.8 to output one system per page? Using
> 
>      \paper
>      {
>          system-count = 1
>      }
> 
> I get the error
> 
>       ERROR: Wrong type (expecting real number): #<undefined>
> 

Ah, crap! I never committed the fix for this! It should be fixed in CVS
anyway because of my most recent changes, but the workaround is to set
system-height = 0 in the paper block.

Anyway, system-count isn't what you're looking for. It just causes the
line-breaking to break the score into system-count systems -- nothing to
do with the distribution of systems over pages.

To get what you want, set next-system-padding (in the paper block) to
something ridiculously big.