Re: page breaks related to header size

[Risto Vääräniemi]

Dear Han-Wen and all,

2007/11/11, Han-Wen Nienhuys-5 wrote:

> Yes.  There is finally light at the end of the GUB tunnel, so 
> hopefully this or next week.

Thanks for the info. I was just about to write a bitterish email about the
frustration caused by the page layout mechanism. :-)

It seems that the described problem exists also on pages with no title or
header. I just created a two page music sheet. On the second page there's
over 40 mm of free space between the bottom margin and the last system. If I
increase the bottom margin by just four millimeters the last system is split
and the whole schmeer is laid out onto three pages. On the first page
everything is still OK even though it's more tightly set than the second
one. If I set the ragged-last-bottom to false then the music is laid out to
two pages but the systems are spread out vertically and the result looks
ugly.

Sometimes I've got around by setting the bottom margin to a carefully tested
negative value but this time it's not possible because I must use a footer
(copyright texts). Negative margins don't sound very professional anyway.
:-)

Another thing I've learned to hate is that the header / title section is
considered as another system. Positioning the first system precisely and
consistently in different compositions (e.g. when making a song book) is
difficult or impossible. 

The program creates quite a pleasing results but the difficult page layout
mechanism kind of takes away the joy of it. 

I'll be eagerly waiting for the 2.11.35. :-)


Best Regards,

Risto
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