Hi Trevor,
Thank you for the suggestions! I am definitely going to try that.
Peter
On Apr 17, 2015 12:13 PM, "Trevor Daniels" <t.dani...@treda.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Peter, you wrote Thursday, April 16, 2015 11:15 PM
> >
> > I would like to ask a question about the vertical spacing in a rather
> > long score ...
> >
> > I believe the attached sample can be typeset on 4 pages. But LilyPond
> > by default uses 6 pages....
> >
> > But ... I believe ...
> > LilyPond should be clever enough to do it automatically, when set up
> > properly. Now, the only question remaining is how to set it up
> > properly.
>
> The first thing to do is add \RemoveEmptyStaves to the preChorusOne
> ChoirStaff:
>
> prechorusOne = \context ChoirStaff
> \with { \RemoveEmptyStaves }
> <<
>
> That puts all the systems but two on 4 pages.
>
> Next, remove the padding between systems by adding this to the paper
> block:
>
> system-system-spacing.padding = 0
>
> That permits another system to move up to page 1.
>
> Finally, add page-count = 4 to the paper block to force LP to use
> only 4 pages. LP objects slightly, with "number of pages is out of
> bounds",
> but the resulting output looks reasonable to me.
>
> The final thing to try, probably unneeded here, is of course to reduce the
> global staff size with
>
> #(set-global-staff-size 19.5)
>
> which removes the error messages.
>
> HTH
>
> Trevor
>
>
>
>
>
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