** LOST ** Many single-system scores produces bad output and overflow

[Xavier Scheuer]

On 9 April 2011 04:34, Graham Percival <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> - the Bug Squad is still losing some issues.  This is extremely
>  unfortunate, and it will hopefully improve over the next few
>  weeks.
>  However, this is something that users can help with:
>  if you have not heard back from a Bug Squad member within
>    ** 48 hours **
>  then please assume that your bug report has been
>    ** LOST **
>  and send the email again.
>
>  It gives me no pleasure to make this announcement, and I really
>  hope that things will improve.  But for the forseeable future,
>  please follow that policy.

Following Graham's policy.

I sent this report 3 days ago (and I'm leaving tomorrow for a few days
vacation, so I prefer to send it again now).

Many thanks!

On 6 April 2011 16:17, Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> It seems single-line (single-system) scores prevent _totally_ page
> breaks and thus produce overflow and bad output.
>
> IMHO beginning of a score at the end of a page should have assigned a
> "bad factor" penalty but should not prevent completely page breaks to
> occur.
>
>
> %% Reported by Bertrand Bordage on the French users mailing list
> %%
> %% Many "single-system" scores on one page produces bad output and
> %% overflow.
> %% Note that 2.12 did not handle it and produced even worse output
> %%
>
> \version "2.13.57"
> \book {
>  \score { << { a } { a } { a } >> }
>  \score { << { a } { a } { a } >> }
>  \score { << { a } { a } { a } >> }
>  \score { << { a } { a } { a } >> }
>  \score { << { a } { a } { a } >> }
>  \score { << { a } { a } { a } >> }
>  \score { << { a } { a } { a } >> }
>  \score { << { a } { a } { a } >> }
> }

See also David Kastrup's comment here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-lilypond/2011-04/msg00068.html

Cheers,
Xavier

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Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>