Re: Vertical spacing on big systems

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Freitag, 12. September 2008 schrieb Michael Käppler:
> Hi all,
> I'm having some trouble to get LilyPond to put two systems on a page
> without forcing that in the following example. (It's pretty long, sorry
> for that)
> I don't really understand why Lily puts each system on one page though
> there is really enough free space on the first page.
> Any hints?

Yes, Lilypond wastes 10% of the vertical space on each page. You have 98 left, 
but lilypond reserves a little less than 20 units for possible rounding 
errors when calculating the staff spacings (yes, I agree, that's insane!). So 
lilypond thinks there is only ~80 staff spaces left, while the second system 
needs 90.

This came up a while ago on the -devel list:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-06/msg00145.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-06/msg00329.html

You might try to comment out (or at least reduce) these 10% of reserved space 
and see if you run into any staff collisions (which I don't think should 
happen, but then I haven't dug deep enought for this staff!).

Cheers,
Reinhold
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