I tried setting systems-per-page to 10. It gave the same error as setting system-count to 20, and ran off the page.
3 measures per line is less than ideal, but it's readable. I'm typesetting an etude book and am trying to avoid having fold-out pages as much as possible. On Sun, Aug 9, 2020, 02:41 Hwaen Ch'uqi <hwaench...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings Ahanu, > > What happens if you set the systems-per-page variable to 10 instead of > using system-count = 20? Does the music then spill over onto a third > page? Just from experience, it seems that 48 sixteenth-notes per line > would get rather cramped, no? I usually use 32-40 16ths per line as my > guide. > > Hwaen Ch'uqi > > > On 8/9/20, Ahanu Banerjee <ahanu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > An étude I'm typesetting needs to fit on 2 pages with reasonable vertical > > space. Normally, I'd just set system-count in \paper (in this case, 20 > > systems in 2 US letter pages), but this time it says "warning: cannot > find > > line breaking that satisfies constraints" and just runs off the page. If > I > > don't set system-count, it gives me 25 cramped systems on 2 pages. > > > > The piece is almost entirely sixteenth notes in 4/4. Some systems fill > with > > 3 bars, others with 2, and I can't figure out why. Ideally, most would > have > > 3 bars, but manual line breaks won't fix it. I've checked for rhythmic > > errors (every measure has a barcheck) and didn't find any. I don't want > to > > decrease the font size. > > > > Unfortunately, I can't come up with a tiny example to demonstrate this > > behaviour. If anyone has suggestions or someone would be willing to look > > over my file, I'd really appreciate it. > > > > Cheers, > > -Ahanu > > >
