Re: line-breaking issue

[Kevin Barry]

Hi Ahanu,

It might help if you add this:
\layout {
  \context {
    \Score
    \override SpacingSpanner.base-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1/32)
  }
}
It might make LilyPond more willing to squash sixteenths closer together
than it would normally like.

Kevin

On Sun, 2020-08-09 at 02:48 -0400, Ahanu Banerjee wrote:
> I tried setting systems-per-page to 10. It gave the same error as
> setting system-count to 20, and ran off the page.

3 measures per line is less than ideal, but it's readable. I'm
typesetting an etude book and am trying to avoid having fold-out pages
as much as possible. 


On Sun, Aug 9, 2020, 02:41 Hwaen Ch'uqi <hwaenchuqi@gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings Ahanu,

What happens if you set the systems-per-page variable to 10 instead
of
using system-count = 20? Does the music then spill over onto a third
page? Just from experience, it seems that 48 sixteenth-notes per
line
would get rather cramped, no? I usually use 32-40 16ths per line as
my
guide.

Hwaen Ch'uqi


On 8/9/20, Ahanu Banerjee <ahanuban@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> An étude I'm typesetting needs to fit on 2 pages with reasonable
vertical
> space. Normally, I'd just set system-count in \paper (in this
case, 20
> systems in 2 US letter pages), but this time it says "warning:
cannot find
> line breaking that satisfies constraints" and just runs off the
page. If I
> don't set system-count, it gives me 25 cramped systems on 2 pages.
>
> The piece is almost entirely sixteenth notes in 4/4. Some systems
fill with
> 3 bars, others with 2, and I can't figure out why. Ideally, most
would have
> 3 bars, but manual line breaks won't fix it. I've checked for
rhythmic
> errors (every measure has a barcheck) and didn't find any. I don't
want to
> decrease the font size.
>
> Unfortunately, I can't come up with a tiny example to demonstrate
this
> behaviour. If anyone has suggestions or someone would be willing
to look
> over my file, I'd really appreciate it.
>
> Cheers,
> -Ahanu
>