Re: completely filling a page, but not too compact, how?

[Lukas-Fabian Moser]

Hi Ken,

> So I disabled all the forced line breaks.
>
> Now it consumes less than 3/4 of one page and is a little too dense to
> read on an iPad.
>
> I'd like to fill the first and only page.
>
> How to do this?

For filling the page, you can do

\paper {
  ragged-last-bottom = ##f
}

In your case, this spreads the systems too far apart on the page, so I 
increased the total amount of systems via

\layout {
  system-count = 7
}

where 7 was found by trial and error. This way, the bars are made wider, 
but I think they still look acceptable.

I took the liberty of making some other small adjustments; feel free to 
ignore them if you do not like them (especially since I realise that my 
changes are very much influenced by middle-European classical music 
notation conventions):

- added \accidentalStyle modern for warning accidentals
- changed the left hand rest in the beginning of the piece (r2. do not 
usually start at crotchet-valued position in a bar)
- bar 4/35a: in "classical" enharmonic spelling, this is usually written 
as f-sharp, not as g-flat (that's an instance where the usual rule of 
thumb "use flats when moving downwards" oversimplifies things)
- markup-system-spacing.padding = 3 to add some space between the title 
and the first system
- added final bar line
- paranoid warning accidentals ('!') in mm. 10 and 29

What I didn't change: Classical convention would probably give the final 
bar a length of only 4 (with fermata), not 1. But I wouldn't put too 
much stock in this, I know that a crotchet final chord would probably 
look strange, and there are plenty of counterexamples to that convention.

Lukas

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