Re: dumb stacking page breaker

[Nicolas Sceaux]

Joe Neeman <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wednesday 11 July 2007 00:09, Nicolas Sceaux wrote:
>> I'd like to write something like that using the new infrastructure.
>>
>>  1) compute the line breaks in the most straightforward way, that is
>>     without considering page breaks or the number of systems per page.
>>     Just lines as regular as possible wrt horizontal spacing and
>>     considering the manual line break permissions.
>
> In fact, we still have code to do this (for lilypond-book, I think). You can 
> get the systems with the best line-breaking score by calling 
> Paper_book::get_paper_systems (or from scheme with ly:paper-book-systems). 
>
> However, this will remove the possibility of stretching the systems because, 
> once you get the paper systems, all the Grobs have been laid out. If you want 
> to allow stretching, you will need to do some C++ hacking and I would suggest 
> starting from Page_breaking::systems () to see how we do it in the current 
> page-breakers.

Of course it is the later I'd like to do. Thanks.