Re: line-breaking issue

[Hwaen Ch'uqi]

Greetings Ahanu,

Without seeing something concrete, I think any further advice is
purely speculative at best. Not sure that _I_ will be able to shed
further light on the matter or that someone else will be willing to
wade through what is not an MWE, but it may be worth a shot to attach
your working code for review.

Hwaen Ch'uqi


On 8/9/20, Ahanu Banerjee <ahanuban@gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried playing around with base-shortest-duration earlier, and it didn't
> help. Pasted Kevin's text to make sure, and nothing changed.
>
> -Ahanu
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 3:48 AM Kevin Barry <barrykp@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> >
>>
>>
>