Re: Page breaks, was: something else

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> Finding clever page breaks is certainly a very tricky business, where
> a human often can do a better job. However, a first step could be to
> try to automatically adjust the line breaks between the user specified
> page breaks to provide a pleasing layout. As far as I can remember, the
> current line breaking algorithm only considers one line at a time.

LilyPond uses optimal line breaking ("Gourlay breaking") since version 
0.1.2. We should rather try to make Lily forget some spacing constraints 
 at forced page breaks.

--

Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen

LilyPond Software Design
 -- Code for Music Notation
http://www.lilypond-design.com