Re: Page layout is affected by previous pages?

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> The question from address@hidden provided a nice example
> of a LilyPond problem, namely that the page breaking and system
> spacing on one page seem to be affected by what happened on earlier
> pages.

page breaking, like line-breaking, is done by looking for a globally 
optimal solution. Apparently, we need to add some more scoring. Why do 
you say

> In my opinion, the systems on
> a new page should be typeset without any consideration of what has
> happened on earlier pages.

?

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