Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
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...
ARRGGGHHHH
This is a TERRIBLE feature!!!
Is there any way to disable this? To me, a page turn can easily be the
difference between a piece of music that's playable, and one that isn't.
To discover that lily is wasting 10% of the page is a nasty surprise.
A page turn can easily take 30 seconds when you're sitting on a
bandstand, and if your music is in a lyre then turning pages just isn't
on (especially when you stick out like a sore thumb because you're in
the front rank!)
(Actually, this is probably my biggest complaint about lily. I know
"beautiful" and "playable" tend to go together, but sometimes
"beautiful" and "practical" don't play nicely together and lily
overemphasises the beauty. I *need* music to fit either on A5, or one or
two sides of A4. I'll accept a hefty hit in other areas to avoid that
third page, and often do have to accept it in nasty tweaks to force the
music to fit.)
Cheers,
Wol
I don't have this problem as long as I use
ragged-last-bottom = ##f
and (if necessary) specify the page-count I want in the paper block. It
fills up the whole page of each page with no wasted space in exactly how
many pages I want. Give this a try before despairing too much! :)
Jon
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http://www.jonathankulp.com
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