Re: warning: Can't fit systems on page -- ignoring between-system-padding

[Joe Neeman]

On 2/12/07, Trevor Bača <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Pretty sure this is a bug, but thought I'd post to bug- first before
> opening in Google.
>
> Sometimes I build .ly files that are essentially text docs as a
> sequence of \markup commands.
>
> In versions up to the .11 dev series, what we might call "multipage
> markup" files would of course break onto multiple pages if there were
> enough \markup blocks to warrant so.
>
> In the current releases a warning issues and all the text gets shoved
> onto a single page, even if there's a considerable amount of text and
> overprint results.
>
> %%% BEGIN %%%
>
> \version "2.11.17"
>
> \markup { text. }
<snip>
> \markup { text. }
>
> %%% END %%%
>
> Sorry for the length of the example; needs length to show up.
>
> Bug? Or new behavior? (If the latter, what's the right way to set a page
> break?)

Bug. It also raises the problem of how to force or forbid a page break
between markup blocks. The backend supports it, but we don't have a
way to actually specify it in the input file.