Re: Strange page breaking issue in 2.13.10

[Phil Holmes]

"Reinhold Kainhofer" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> Am Dienstag, 5. Januar 2010 00:02:04 schrieb Joe Neeman:
> > On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 17:50 +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I have a score with a full-page title page and several scores. Now,
> > > everything fits on 3 pages, but the page breaks are not ideal and I can
> > > afford to use 4 pages anyway.
> > >
> > > So, I insert a force page break before the last score (which takes 
> > > ~0.66
> > > pages originally) to give it its own page and stretch the scores before
> > > that from 1.33 pages to 2 pages.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, after inserting this forced \pageBreak the scores 
> > > (except
> > > the last), which before took only ~1.33 pages, suddently don't even fit
> > > on 2 pages any more, but need 3 pages!
> > >
> > > Attached is an example of this effect. if you leave the second 
> > > \pageBreak
> > > commented out, everything fits on 3 pages. As in my real score the page
> > > breaks are not ideal, I added the \pageBreak before the final score.
> > > Simply uncomment that \pageBreak and suddently the score uses 5 pages
> > > instead of the expected 4 pages.
> >
> > Thanks, this is definitely a bug. As a workaround, set blank-page-force
> > and blank-after-score-page-force to zero (the bug, of course, being that
> > these variables should have no effect unless you are using the
> > page-turn-breaker).
>
> Yes, thanks, this workaround works for now. Of course, in the longer run 
> that
> bug should be tackled. Currently plain vanilla lilypond does not do a 
> proper
> job with page breaks.
>
> Cheers,
> Reinhold

I can't find this being added to the bug tracker, and there's no example 
code.  Was it ever added?  If not, is there example code?


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Phil Holmes