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Global layoutThe global layout determined by three factors: the page layout, the line breaks and the spacing. These all influence each other: The choice of spacing determines how densely each system of music is set, where line breaks breaks are chosen, and thus ultimately how many pages a piece of music takes. In this section we will explain how the lilypond spacing engine works, and how you can tune its results. Globally spoken, this procedure happens in three steps: first, flexible distances ("springs") are chosen, based on durations. All possible line breaking combination are tried, and the one with the best results--a layout that has uniform density and requires as little stretching or cramping as possible--is chosen. When the score is processed by TeX, page are filled with systems, and page breaks are chosen whenever the page gets full. |
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