Re: Fitting as many lines as possible on a page

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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On Freitag, 30. Januar 2009 23:37:28 Tim Yang wrote:
> It doesn't work. I set the page-count as 2 and Lilypond still uses 3
> pages. I think it is because somehow Lilypond thinks these lines don't
> fit in 2 pages but in fact there is a lot of space left.

Yes, currently the vertical page layouting algorithm of lilypond is sub-
optimal. Lilypond reserves 10% of the total space to make sure it does not 
overprint staves. This means that 10% of the page will always be wasted...
Unfortunately, there is no easy way around this for now, until someone starts 
working on the vertical staff layouting seriously...

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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 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org
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