Re: Page size goes haywire

On Mon, 29 Jun 2026 at 20:17, Eric Benson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have a large collection of lead sheets in LilyPond I've been working on
> for several years. I believe I may have stumbled upon a strange bug. I had
> been engraving these individually and assembling PDFs using LaTeX, but the
> resulting files were huge because each separate PDF has its own separate
> copy of its fonts. Combining PDFs this way doesn't offer any way to
combine
> fonts. I finally broke down and figured out how to compile these books
> entirely within LilyPond, so the largest native-buit PDF is now about 10%
> of the size of the assembled PDF.
>
> Anyway, in the process of building these books I encountered a strange
> problem. There is a particular song that causes the engraving to either go
> past the right edge and bottom edge of the page, or shrink both margins so
> that it uses a smaller part of the page. This condition persists in the
> book until it engraves a different particular song that sets it back to
the
> correct size. I use a somewhat complicated system of include files to
> enable these songs to be typeset in different keys. There is one key for
> the "wrong size" song that makes it get too large. All the other keys that
> I've tried make it get too small. The song is written in D, but if I
> transpose it to C it spills over the limits of the page. If I keep it in D
> or transpose to some other key it shrinks to a smaller portion of the
page.
> This new page size stays until the "right size" song gets engraved, then
> the rest of the book uses the correct size.

Hello,

Do you have any errors or warnings when compiling the scores?
Music running off the page is almost always due to an error of duration in
a measure.
Check again the score (song) producing the error (and/or tell us which one
it is in your repository, it may help)..
https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.27/Documentation/usage/music-runs-off-the-page

Kind regards,
Xavier