On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 00:53 +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Freitag, 30. Januar 2009 23:37:28 Tim Yang wrote: > > 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. > > 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 starts > working on the vertical staff layouting seriously...
This is only the case for the stretching of systems, AFAICR. It shouldn't affect single-staff music. Joe _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
