Re: setting the number of pages for a score

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Joe Neeman wrote:
> Or consider the possibility that I typeset something where I don't care 
> about page turns at all. There might be one or 2 decent turns, but not 
> enough for good breaking. In trying to ensure good page turns, lilypond 
> would give me uneven line breaking, blank pages and all sorts of 
> unnecessary ugly stuff.
>
> So first of all, there should be a way to tell the page-breaker to 
> completely ignore page turns. But also, the above situation would give 
> poor default output. I haven't really thought this through, but could 
> the default be to autodetect whether page turns should matter, with an 
> override by setting a \paper block variable?

We can't predict or guess the importance of page-breaks (relative to 
neat spacing), so that suggests that we should add a parameter that 
weighs both. We should look for a sensible default.  I think it will 
impossible to set this weighting automatically.


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