[texhax] lilypond/latex and vertical spacing

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On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:03:26PM -0800, Donald Arseneau wrote:

> There is no way LaTeX will break a page in the middle of
> \includegraphics{lily-book-produced.eps}

Actually, lily seems to produce lots (and lots) of small eps files,
one for each line of the tune.  The importation of these can indeed
result in unfortunate page breaks.

> Guessing without information, I'll suggest replacing 
> \begin{figure} with \noindent\begin{minipage}{\columnwidth}  
> and \end{figure} with \end{minipage}\par.

Ah bullseye.  Thanks a lot.  That is a huge improvement.

It does leave me with lots of white space below some of the tunes and
I understand why this is happening.  Latex is including the mini pages
as it finds the \include statements.  My latex file is the end result
of a perl script, so I can change the sequence of the \includes, but
there is a fair bit of work in it: arranging the \include statements
to minimise the white space.

Is there any other approach ?  I am currently dealing with 179 tunes,
well, in chapters of say 50 or so !

Thanks again.

Joe