Re: Vertical spacing on big systems

[Nicolas Sceaux]

Le 12 sept. 08 à 18:59, Reinhold Kainhofer a écrit :
> Yes, Lilypond wastes 10% of the vertical space on each page. You  
> have 98 left,
> but lilypond reserves a little less than 20 units for possible  
> rounding
> errors when calculating the staff spacings (yes, I agree, that's  
> insane!). So
> lilypond thinks there is only ~80 staff spaces left, while the  
> second system
> needs 90.
>
> This came up a while ago on the -devel list:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-06/msg00145.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-06/msg00329.html
>
> You might try to comment out (or at least reduce) these 10% of  
> reserved space
> and see if you run into any staff collisions (which I don't think  
> should
> happen, but then I haven't dug deep enought for this staff!).

I've collected some raw data about estimated extents and real ones one
various scores. I still have to study them, maybe a more suitable amount
of reserved space will emerge.

nicolas