Re: Is pagination quadratic?

[Mark Austin]

On 11 April 2011 18:13, Valentin Villenave <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Victor Eijkhout <address@hidden> wrote:
>> So now I have this exercise study that generates close to 2000 scales like 
>> "\relative c { a b c d e f g a g f e d c b a}". And "finding the ideal 
>> number of pages" takes an ungodly amount of time. Minutes. Probably over 10.
>
> That's to be expected: page-breaking is *the* most time-consuming
> process in LilyPond. Using
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/minimal-page-breaking
> should be fine and harmless in this specific case.
>
> (On an unrelated note, I recently found that refreshing large PDF
> documents takes forever when point-and-click is enabled.)

Is it possible to switch of pagination completely, and rely on manual
breaks? To put this in context, I'm compling a book of folk tunes.
These tend to be 2-4 (very rarely more) lines long. I'd like them in
alphabetical order, but with individual tunes not split over pages,
and wouldn't mind a layout rather more cramped than Lilypond usually
likes. As it is, even with minimal page breaking, I end up shuffling
tunes around to improve the layout

-- 
Mark Austin

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