Re: page-count

[Joe Neeman]

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:00:50 David Bobroff wrote:
> I saw the announcement about page-count being added to the \paper{}
> possibilities and I was thrilled to see it as I had been wanting just
> exactly that.  I've found that it does not work within \layout{}.  Other
> things like system-count seem to be working with a \layout{} block but
> page-count doesn't.  Is this to be expected, or should it also work in
> \layout{} as well?  It would certainly be useful for controlling page
> counts in numerous scores being typeset together.

Line breaking is done per-score, while page-breaking is done per-book. 
Therefore things that control the page-breaking generally have no effect in a 
\layout block.

Joe