2009/1/30 Jonathan Kulp <jonlancek...@gmail.com>: > Tim Yang wrote: >> >> I have a single staff music that spans two or three pages using font >> size 15. If I use between-system-padding=#4 and >> between-system-spacing=#4, it will use 3 pages with 12 lines for first >> 2 pages and a single line on 3rd page. if the numbers are both #3, >> then it uses 2 pages. But I notice there is a large space below each >> page. When I set annotate-spacing = ##t I can see "47.46 space left" >> which is a large space. >> >> Why does Lilypond left so large space unused and draws only 12 lines >> while insisting on printing on 3rd page? How can I stuff as many >> lines as possible on each page, which seems more reasonable? >> > > You can set the page count explicitly in your \paper block like this: > > \paper { > page-count = 3 > } > > You can also set page breaks manually following directions here: > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Page-breaking#Page-breaking > > HTH, > > Jon > -- > Jonathan Kulp > http://www.jonathankulp.com >
It doesn't work. I set the page-count as 2 and Lilypond still uses 3 pages. I think it is because somehow Lilypond thinks these lines don't fit in 2 pages but in fact there is a lot of space left. Tim Yang _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user