Re: page Break not working between scores

[Erik Sandberg]

On Saturday 09 April 2005 04.59, John Sellers wrote:
> In Lilypond 2.4.3-1 the pageBreaks fail in certain cases. In the
> incomplete fragment below, "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" will be
> split between pages instead of starting at the top of the next page if
> there is not enough for all of it on the current page .

You can work around this by using a page break inside the piece. You can 
search the lilypond-user archives to learn how to do this.

In 2.5, the proper way to do pagebreaks between scores, is to use 
breakbefore=##t in the \header.

> Actually I wish there was a way to group logical chunks such that they
> would automatically start on the next page if there is not enough room
> for them on the current page, much like Microsoft word uses the "keep
> together" option to avoid splitting paragraphs and "keep with next" to
> force related material move together to the next page if there is not
> enough room for all.  Maybe use \keeptogether {} to group one or more
> items you want on the same page, and \keepwithnext {} when you don't
> want an item dangling as the last thing on a page because it is closely
> related to the next item.
>
> This would help eliminate having to manually fix up pagination from
> frequent changing sizes or inserting additional material into a long
> documents as I have witnessed first hand with many dealings with long
> Microsoft word documents.

\keepTogether sounds like a nice suggestion, imho. (though I don't understand 
the \keepWithNext thing)

Erik