Re: line-breaking issue

[Hwaen Ch'uqi]

Greetings Ahanu,

What happens if you set the systems-per-page variable to 10 instead of
using system-count = 20? Does the music then spill over onto a third
page? Just from experience, it seems that 48 sixteenth-notes per line
would get rather cramped, no? I usually use 32-40 16ths per line as my
guide.

Hwaen Ch'uqi


On 8/9/20, Ahanu Banerjee <ahanuban@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> An étude I'm typesetting needs to fit on 2 pages with reasonable vertical
> space. Normally, I'd just set system-count in \paper (in this case, 20
> systems in 2 US letter pages), but this time it says "warning: cannot find
> line breaking that satisfies constraints" and just runs off the page. If I
> don't set system-count, it gives me 25 cramped systems on 2 pages.
>
> The piece is almost entirely sixteenth notes in 4/4. Some systems fill with
> 3 bars, others with 2, and I can't figure out why. Ideally, most would have
> 3 bars, but manual line breaks won't fix it. I've checked for rhythmic
> errors (every measure has a barcheck) and didn't find any. I don't want to
> decrease the font size.
>
> Unfortunately, I can't come up with a tiny example to demonstrate this
> behaviour. If anyone has suggestions or someone would be willing to look
> over my file, I'd really appreciate it.
>
> Cheers,
> -Ahanu
>