Re: Using only manual page breaks in a large file with many short scores

[Paul Morris]

Federico Bruni wrote:
> It's hard to understand exactly your situation without looking an example.
> Anyway, what I meant is in the minimal example attached.

Thanks for that.  It's a nice illustration of how \bookpart works.  I need to 
look into \table-of-contents which looks very useful.

I've attached a similar example to show how things are currently set up with 
what I'm working with.  Basically each tune (\score) is in its own file and 2-3 
of them should fit on each page.  

If I used \bookpart like in your example, I would have one \bookpart per page 
and one file per \bookpart (page), rather than one file per tune (\score).  And 
then I'd lose the flexibility of having a separate file for each tune that can 
stand on its own or be easily re-combined with other tunes in different 
groupings.

The ragged-bottom = ##t line in Collection.ly prevents the three tunes from 
fitting on a page, and causes what should be "forced" manual page breaks to be 
ignored, and automatic page breaks to be used instead (even though 
page-break-permission is set to ##f).  If you comment out ragged-bottom = ##t 
you can see that the 3 tunes can and do fit on the page.

Thinking out loud... what if there were a way to allow LilyPond to compress 
things vertically (say to fit the manual page breaks), but also disallow 
stretching to fill the page if there is more than enough room?  Basically, what 
if ragged-bottom were two separate commands? Something like 
"allow-vertical-compression" and "allow-vertical-stretching" (or 
"disable-vertical-compression" and "disable-vertical-stretching")?  

Anyway, I'm still wondering what's the best approach.  One complication is that 
I also need to be able to output the whole collection in a transposed version 
for transposed instruments (like a B flat clarinet), and it would be nice to be 
able to do that without having to make an additional copy of all the files for 
each transposition... so several trade-offs to think through.

Thanks for your help,
-Paul

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