Re: Fitting as many lines as possible on a page

[Joe Neeman]

On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 00:53 +0100, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
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> On Freitag, 30. Januar 2009 23:37:28 Tim Yang wrote:
> > It doesn't work. I set the page-count as 2 and Lilypond still uses 3
> > pages. I think it is because somehow Lilypond thinks these lines don't
> > fit in 2 pages but in fact there is a lot of space left.
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> Yes, currently the vertical page layouting algorithm of lilypond is sub-
> optimal. Lilypond reserves 10% of the total space to make sure it does not 
> overprint staves. This means that 10% of the page will always be wasted...
> Unfortunately, there is no easy way around this for now, until someone starts 
> working on the vertical staff layouting seriously...

This is only the case for the stretching of systems, AFAICR. It
shouldn't affect single-staff music.

Joe