Re: ignoring between-system-padding

[jim altieri]

Graham and Joe,
 Thanks for your responses.  It turns out that switching back to 2.10 
did the trick.  Thanks for the help!
-jim

Joe Neeman wrote:
> On Sunday 18 March 2007 14:31, jim altieri wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> >   I'm going a little batty trying to fine-tune the vertical spacing on
> > my score.  It's too complex to include here, but suffice to say, when I
> > typeset the file, I get the following warning:
> >     warning: Can't fit systems on page -- ignoring between-system-padding
> >   What is the code equivalent of, "Please, LilyPond, stop ignoring me?"
> >     
>
> In this case, there isn't one. The problem is that, in order to work out where 
> to put page breaks, LilyPond estimates the height of each system. If it 
> consistently underestimates the height, it might choose a page breaking 
> configuration where the systems don't actually fit on the page. When it comes 
> time to actually produce the pages, LilyPond realises that they don't fit and 
> it ignores between-system-padding as a workaround (rather than having the 
> systems run off the bottom of the page).
>
> There are a few things you can do:
> 1) Add "annotate-spacing = ##t" to your paper block. Compare Y-extent and 
> Y-extent-estimate on the output. If you notice that the estimates are bad, 
> send a bug report.
> 2) Set page-breaking-between-system-padding in the paper block to something 
> larger than between-system-padding. This will trick the page breaker into 
> thinking that you want more padding than you really do. As a result, it will 
> put fewer systems on each page.
> 3) Set system-count to the number of systems you want. This currently bypasses 
> all the height-estimation stuff.
> 4) Try 2.11.21 when it comes out; there is at least one issue that was fixed 
> recently.
> 5) Use 2.10 instead of 2.11, where things like this are less likely to come 
> up.
>
> Joe
>
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