Re: Fitting as many lines as possible on a page

[Joe Neeman]

On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 12:13 +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
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> On Samstag, 31. Januar 2009 02:06:38 Joe Neeman wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 00:53 +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
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> > > 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...
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> > This is only the case for the stretching of systems, AFAICR. It
> > shouldn't affect single-staff music.
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> Isn't stretch-and-draw-page called for all pages, even for single-staff 
> systems?

Right, but it only uses the 10% buffer to decide how much to stretch the
systems. The actual layout of the systems, once they've been stretched,
is done in space-systems, which uses the full printable extent of the
page.

Joe