Re: Large gap in text.

[Eluze]

Phil Holmes-2 wrote
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> From: "Hwaen Ch'uqi" <

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> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 3:30 AM
> Subject: Large gap in text.
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>> Greetings All,
>>     I am nearing the end of preparations for my first
>> LilyPond-generated publication. My problem lies in the prefatory
>> matter. I have trimmed the code as lean as possible and have attached
>> both .ly and .pdf files. As you will see, a highly undesired page
>> break occurs, leaving a great amount of unused vertical space on page
>> 1. However, if I will remove the code for page 3, pages 1 and 2 will
>> compile as expected. Is it possible that I have a misunderstanding
>> regarding \markuplist or \vspace? Can anyone advise me? The matter is
>> now somewhat time-sensitive.
>>     Thank you so much.
>> Hwaen Ch'uqi
> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> It looks to me that Lilypond is doing to your text what it should do to 
> music: make it so that the number of systems per page are balanced.
> Because 
> you've forced a page turn before the acknowledgements, it's now as if you 
> have 6 systems of music, but want 5 of them on page 1 and 1 on page 2: 
> Lilypond naturally disagrees, wanting a balance with 3 on each page.
> 
> I can't get this to work in your set-up, but I'd suggest it may be best, 
> given your layout, to use purely manual page breaking.  You can forbid 
> automatic page breaking with
> 
> \override NonMusicalPaperColumn.page-break-permission = ##f
> 
> and can then place \pageBreak appropriately.

I think it's strange behavior. 

instead of page breaking you can start a new \bookpart!

Eluze



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