Re: Strange page breaking issue in 2.13.10

[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).

Joe