Re: More vertical spacing confusion

[David Kastrup]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> Joe Neeman <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> So I have several questions:
>>>
>>>  - Is the behaviour I am experiencing (a system spilling over onto a
>>>    second page) correct or a bug?  If correct, what's the best way to
>>>    avoid the spillage?
>>
>> \paper {
>>   ragged-last-bottom = ##f
>> }
>>
>> By default, ragged-last-bottom is ##t, so lilypond has no incentive to
>> avoid that dangling system on page 2.
>
> I don't understand this "so".
>
> The following should still be penalized since they are deficiencies even
> on a ragged bottom:
>
> a) a page which is considerably less full than the previous page
> b) every page break, and most certainly inside of a system, should carry
>    a penalty, giving Lilypond some incentive to compress systems iff it
>    helps to avoid using more pages than necessary.

Otherwise, the scoring does not care whether we have 5 pages with just a
single system and lots of bottom space, one full page, and 5 pages with
just a single system again.

Ragged-bottom or not, this is ugly and that should get reflected in the
scores.

-- 
David Kastrup