On 11 April 2011 18:13, Valentin Villenave <valen...@villenave.net> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Victor Eijkhout <vic...@eijkhout.net> wrote: >> So now I have this exercise study that generates close to 2000 scales like >> "\relative c { a b c d e f g a g f e d c b a}". And "finding the ideal >> number of pages" takes an ungodly amount of time. Minutes. Probably over 10. > > That's to be expected: page-breaking is *the* most time-consuming > process in LilyPond. Using > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/minimal-page-breaking > should be fine and harmless in this specific case. > > (On an unrelated note, I recently found that refreshing large PDF > documents takes forever when point-and-click is enabled.)
Is it possible to switch of pagination completely, and rely on manual breaks? To put this in context, I'm compling a book of folk tunes. These tend to be 2-4 (very rarely more) lines long. I'd like them in alphabetical order, but with individual tunes not split over pages, and wouldn't mind a layout rather more cramped than Lilypond usually likes. As it is, even with minimal page breaking, I end up shuffling tunes around to improve the layout -- Mark Austin ---------- For Whigs admit no force but argument ---------- _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user