Re: Preventing page breaks

[Mats Bengtsson]

Graham Percival wrote:

> OnionRingOfDoom wrote:
>
> > When I added the title of the piece in what used to be a single page of
> > music, lilypond decided to split the piece into two pages with each 
> > line of
> > music being spaced very far apart. Previously I had been using this 
> > code in
> > order to squeeze as much as I could onto one page without being too 
> > crowded:
> >
> > \paper {
> >   between-system-padding = #1
> >   ragged-bottom=##f
> >   ragged-last-bottom=##f
> > }
>
>
> Try reducing between-system even more.  In addition, see the 2.9 docs 
> for more tips on keeping music on one page.  It's somewhere in 
> chapters 3-5.


One highly relevant parameter to tweak that isn't mentioned in Sect.
"5.5 Fitting music onto fewer pages" is between-system-space, which tells
the desired center to center distance between the systems. The default value
is 20 mm and at least if you have a single stave score, it often helps 
to decrease
it to
between-system-space = 15\mm
You can even set it to zero if you use the settings described above.

I'll update the information in the manual.

  /Mats