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From: | Jonathan Kulp |
Subject: | Re: Fitting as many lines as possible on a page |
Date: | Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:29:53 -0600 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) |
Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
Yes, currently the vertical page layouting algorithm of lilypond is sub-optimal. Lilypond reserves 10% of the total space to make sure it does not overprint staves. This means that 10% of the page will always be wasted... Unfortunately, there is no easy way around this for now, until someone startsworking on the vertical staff layouting seriously...ARRGGGHHHH This is a TERRIBLE feature!!!Is there any way to disable this? To me, a page turn can easily be the difference between a piece of music that's playable, and one that isn't. To discover that lily is wasting 10% of the page is a nasty surprise.A page turn can easily take 30 seconds when you're sitting on a bandstand, and if your music is in a lyre then turning pages just isn't on (especially when you stick out like a sore thumb because you're in the front rank!)(Actually, this is probably my biggest complaint about lily. I know "beautiful" and "playable" tend to go together, but sometimes "beautiful" and "practical" don't play nicely together and lily overemphasises the beauty. I *need* music to fit either on A5, or one or two sides of A4. I'll accept a hefty hit in other areas to avoid that third page, and often do have to accept it in nasty tweaks to force the music to fit.)Cheers, Wol
I don't have this problem as long as I use ragged-last-bottom = ##fand (if necessary) specify the page-count I want in the paper block. It fills up the whole page of each page with no wasted space in exactly how many pages I want. Give this a try before despairing too much! :)
Jon -- Jonathan Kulp http://www.jonathankulp.com
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