Re: too wide score after upgrading 2.18.1 to 2.18.2

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Marcin Gryszkalis" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>; "Karol Majewski" <address@hidden>
Cc: "lilypond-user mailinglist" <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: too wide score after upgrading 2.18.1 to 2.18.2


> On 20.04.2014 12:56, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > Also, simply deleting all the forced line breaks fits the piece on one
> > page!
>
> That's right - though I wanted to have line break every 4th bar (as you 
> can
> see on 2.18.1 sample).
>
>
> > 2.18.1 was never actually released: how did you get it?
>
> Gentoo linux portage
> http://packages.gentoo.org/package/media-sound/lilypond
>
>
> On 20.04.2014 12:34, Karol Majewski wrote:
> > There was this big spacing issue 3304, which was fixed between 2.18.1 and
> > 2.18.2. https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3304
> > I think this could be the reason.
>
> It looks to be tuplet related and there are no tuplets in my score, but I
> don't really know much about lilypond internals.
>
> The final question is - is there anything that can be forced to achieve
> narrower space? From my (La)TeX background - I know that trying too hard 
> to
> force TeX to do something usually ends in total failure ;) but still....

Try putting the \layout section where it should be: after the music, and 
experiment with

\override SpacingSpanner.common-shortest-duration = #(ly:make-moment 1/n)


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Phil Holmes