Re: Fitting as many lines as possible on a page

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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On Montag, 2. Februar 2009 07:12:59 Joe Neeman wrote:
> > > Right, but it only uses the 10% buffer to decide how much to stretch
> > > the systems. The actual layout of the systems, once they've been
> > > stretched, is done in space-systems, which uses the full printable
> > > extent of the page.
> >
> > Exactly. However, the 10% buffer is used when calculating how many
> > systems to put on a page, so even if e.g. 10 systems would fit on a page,
> > only 9 are placed there... Or am I misunderstanding the code?
>
> Either you are or I am misremembering it. The stretch-and-draw-page
> function is called after the page breaks have been decided (in
> Optimal_page_breaking::solve, by default) to do the stretching and to
> actually position the systems on the page. Within the page-breaking
> calculation, there is no 10% buffer.

Ah, I see, Page_breaking::make_pages is called only after all page breaks have 
been decided, so it's really only about stretching and spacing!
Thanks for pointing this out.

Cheers,
Reinhold
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