Re: Weirdness in distribution of systems across pages

[Keith OHara]

Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7 <at> gmx.de> writes:

> [...] It's almost perfect, 
> except for piece 9, which is only three systems big with (relatively) much 
> space in between. So I tried if it could be 4 systems long and it can.
> 
> However, for some reason, when I do so it messes up piece 2. Although it is 
> two manual \pageBreaks apart, it is influenced by this one system-count 

You can ask Lilypond to consider only a portion of the music when breaking 
pages,
by making each portion a separate \bookpart.  Each \bookpart starts on a new 
page, so you might put pieces 2-4 in one \bookpart, pieces 4-6 in the next 
\bookpart, etc.

When Lilypond has reached the limits of her ability to suggest page breaks, 
you can take over by putting \pageBreaks where you want them and using 
page-break-permission = #f (see chapter 4 in the reference manual for syntax).