Re: systems-per-page = 3 ... except on first and last pages?

[Jan-Peter Voigt]

... and if you want to use manual page-breaks, you can apply them using 
the edition-engraver (https://github.com/openlilylib/edition-engraver) 
... time will come and I explain it in detail on lilypondblog.org.

But still the issue of ragged/unragged pages remains. Sometime I insert 
a markup of arbitrary height to fill the bottom of a last or the head of 
a first page. That is not a generic solution, but still ...

Jan-Peter

Am 05.01.2017 um 10:58 schrieb Federico Bruni:
> Il giorno mer 4 gen 2017 alle 23:00, Trevor Bača <address@hidden>
> ha scritto:
> > I'm using ...
> >
> >     systems-per-page = 3
> >
> > ... in the \paper block of a current score.
> >
> > However, the big block of title text on the first page makes three
> > systems cramped. (Two would be better.) Correspondingly, fewer
> > measures of music on the last page makes each of the three systems on
> > the last page too short. (Again two systems would be better.)
> >
> > Is there an (inline) way to override the effect of systems-per-page on
> > only select pages?
>
> I'm afraid that the only way is using manual \pageBreaks.
>
> \version "2.19.53"
>
> \header {
>  title = "Hello"
> }
>
> \paper {
>  indent = 0
>  markup-system-spacing.padding = 30
>  system-count = 17 % 68 bars divided on 17 systems = 4 bars per system
>  systems-per-page = 7
> }
>
> {
>  % 1st page: 3 systems
>  \repeat unfold 12 R1
>  \pageBreak
>
>  % 2nd page: 7 systems;
>  % 3rd page: 5 systems (\pageBreak overrides systems-per-page)
>  \repeat unfold 48 R1
>  \pageBreak
>
>  % last page: 2 systems
>  \repeat unfold 8 R1
> }
>
>
>
>
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