Re: Strange page breaking issue in 2.13.10

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Dienstag, 5. Januar 2010 00:02:04 schrieb Joe Neeman:
> On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 17:50 +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have a score with a full-page title page and several scores. Now,
> > everything fits on 3 pages, but the page breaks are not ideal and I can
> > afford to use 4 pages anyway.
> >
> > So, I insert a force page break before the last score (which takes ~0.66
> > pages originally) to give it its own page and stretch the scores before
> > that from 1.33 pages to 2 pages.
> >
> > Unfortunately, after inserting this forced \pageBreak the scores (except
> > the last), which before took only ~1.33 pages, suddently don't even fit
> > on 2 pages any more, but need 3 pages!
> >
> > Attached is an example of this effect. if you leave the second \pageBreak
> > commented out, everything fits on 3 pages. As in my real score the page
> > breaks are not ideal, I added the \pageBreak before the final score.
> > Simply uncomment that \pageBreak and suddently the score uses 5 pages
> > instead of the expected 4 pages.
> 
> Thanks, this is definitely a bug. As a workaround, set blank-page-force
> and blank-after-score-page-force to zero (the bug, of course, being that
> these variables should have no effect unless you are using the
> page-turn-breaker).

Yes, thanks, this workaround works for now. Of course, in the longer run that 
bug should be tackled. Currently plain vanilla lilypond does not do a proper 
job with page breaks.

Cheers,
Reinhold
 
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