Re: page-turn-breaking horizontal spacing

[Neil Puttock]

2008/11/24 Joe Neeman <address@hidden>:

> It's a little hard to tell without an example, but it sounds like
> lilypond is refusing to give things more space because that would make
> for a bad page turn. The page-turn-breaking function treats the
> page-turns with higher priority than anything else, even if the
> horizontal spacing is really bad. However, it should still use the
> horizontal spacing settings to choose a good configuration. Does adding
> \allowPageTurn in appropriate places help?

Should the Page_turn_engraver be \consist-ed when using
ly:page-turn-breaking?  Though it's not mentioned in the docs, all the
relevant regtests include it, and having tested it myself, the spacing
variables seem to work fine so long as the engraver's included.

For example, removing the Page_turn_engraver from
page-turn-page-breaking-auto-first-page2.ly results in very tightly
spaced systems on one page; increasing 'shortest-duration-space only
loosens up the first system.

Regards,
Neil