Re: Floating markup / Markup takes too much space

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Steinmetzger" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2012 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: Floating markup / Markup takes too much space

On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 01:37:50PM -0000, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > Dear list
> > >
> > I am trying something new; I want to include a logo in my copyright 
> > line. I
> > have here a one-page sheet consisting of a score and a markup block 
> > which
> > contains the text for verses 2 to 4.
> >
> > Now according to annotate-spacing, I have 11.13pt of space left. The 
> > image
> > in the screenshot was included with the command
> > \epsfile #Y #6 #"inc/filename.eps"
> >
> > But even if I increase the image's height from 6 to a mere 7, the markup
> > above is pushed to a second page.
> > [...]
> > There have been a _lot_ of changes in the spacing calculations between 
> > the
> > version you're using and current stable, which is 2.14.2.  I suggest 
> > trying
> > with 2.14 and letting us know if the problems remain.
>
> Thanks for your answers. I was beginning to fear my questions became 
> either too
> specific, too mundane or were dealt with many a time before, so you just
> didn't bother. :)

Well, actually I was working and then singing. Other people were probably 
doing something similar.  We answer as fast as we can, but it's better that 
you ask questions in plenty of time.

> Anyway, The canon of your answers is to upgrade -- and I agree. A version 
> push
> request has been in the Gentoo bug tracker for ages now. I added a comment
> there that 2.16 is about to come out (as I recently read here).
>
>
> Back to topic: I built 2.14 from source which was easy thanks to Gentoo's
> infrastructure. Indeed I can enlarge the logo nicely with it, because it
> is a simple one-page piece.
>
> Bigger pieces, however, use a template with a modified variant of the
> titlepage snippet, which doesn't work properly with 2.14. This kind of
> migration work is what I dread most about the switch.


Have you run convert-ly on the files in your project?  Most of the time, 
this will fix upgrade issues automatically.

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Phil Holmes