Re: page break woes, ties, and more

[Mats Bengtsson]

Graham Percival wrote:
> On 29-Aug-04, at 11:53 AM, Robinson P. Tryon 03 wrote:
>
> > Is this a common problem?  Is "\newpage" a suggestion to lilypond/TeX  
> > that does
> > not necessarily need to be followed?
>
>
> It's a bug.  I'm not certain if it's been fixed in the devel version yet
> or not.
>
> > Is there something like \noBreak for \newpage ?  (\noNewpage ?)
>
>
> Yes.  For the devel version,
> http://www.lilypond.org/doc/v2.3/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/ 
> Page-breaking.html
>
> I'm pretty certain that it exists for the 2.2 stream as well, but I  don't
> have that manual bookmarked.  It should be easy for you to find the  
> relevant
> section of the manual, though.  :)

It would be fairly hard to do in version 2.2.x or earlier, since those
typesetting decisions are made by LaTeX. The only thing that might
prevent a page break, could be to use inline LaTeX code to increase
the "text height" of the current page:
c4^"\\enlargethispage{5mm}"

> > I tried to put some italic and bold text in the "Header" section, but  
> > that didn't seem to work. 

Up to version 2.2.x, the titling layout can be modified by adding
LaTeX commands. Just remember to escape each backslash by an extra
backslash:

\header{
  title = "\\textit{Title in italics}"
  subtitle = "\\textbf{Subtitle in boldface}"
}

   /Mats