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From: | Gilles |
Subject: | Re: Dorico release and tutorials |
Date: | Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:35:26 +0200 |
User-agent: | Scarlet Webmail |
On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:20:11 +0200, Urs Liska wrote:
Am 19.10.2016 um 16:14 schrieb Gilles:Hi. On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:47:01 -0400, Kieren MacMillan wrote:Hi Gilles,Unforced breaks can depend on previous margin settings, possibly making the numbering wrong when the user reruns the compilation with different settings.Of course that *can* happen… but it doesn’t have to. In all myscores, once the layout is fixed, I no longer *ever* let Lilypond make layout choices: I turn off auto-breaking and manually force-break all lines and pages, i.e., page numbers in my scores never change [afterthat point].Why “rather”? Why not “in addition to”?Because (I guess that) the former will not likely produce the expected output, particularly when there are many pages. Unless you mean that the typesetting should only rely on forced breaks.No… I’m saying I don’t understand why there cannot be options — thenusers (like me) who control breaks completely can do one thing, and those who don’t can do another.That’s one of my favourite philosophical features about Lilypond: itso often allows the user to choose, offering many parameters for adjustment (with reasonable defaults).I think that we say the same thing: the feature would work reliably only when the user specify all page breaks.I think that *if* a score requires differently-sized sections it'spretty common that you'll end up with manual breaks. So t option shouldbe there, as an alternative.Of course such a feature could also be useful to apply to "the current page", so you'll write an explicit break followed by the command. Thatway it would be independent from the actual page number.
What I'm saying is that *if* the feature is to allow a given number of systems onto one page, it is better to have an explicit command to that effect, rather than "manually" fiddle with the margin and/or staff-size settings. Of course, I can well imagine that it would be much more complicated to implement than a margin setting, while for users that enter all the page breaks manually, all that would be required is the margin setting. Best regards, Gilles
Best, GillesCheers, Kieren.
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