: How to disable or limit compression of over-full pages in Lilypond? Sometimes lilypond tries to use less pages for more music, which is not always wanted. This can be easily fixed by manually adding pageBreak , but sometimes

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As far as I know, you can only tell Lilypond how to space lines within one markup, but not between markups (except perhaps with a padding). This is especially problematic if this markup is not embedded into a Staff context. Maybe I am wrong, though …

So, you should probably not use many single markup macros, but instead make use of a markuplist and wordwrap-lines. This should prevent Lilypond from compressing the spacing between single markup commands. At least, it is worth a try.

You can use one markuplist per paragraph, for example. The spec says, markuplists can span over several pages, so maybe you can even just use one. I don’t know how your script exactly works that generates this output, but maybe this is a feasible solution?

I added snippets from your code and in the following example but reduced it to the most important parts:

version "2.18.2"
language "english"
paper {
#(include-special-characters)
bottom-margin = 0.27in
}
% Your definitions here
markup wordwrap {
bold { "#"2 (from test-vocal-range) Key: G mixolydian }
tiny { "Lyrics:" "sp1." }
}
<<
% Your notes and formatting here
new Staff = "staff1" {
set Staff.instrumentName = markup { teeny override #'(baseline-skip . 2.0) center-column{ "Part" "" "[Soprano]" } }
new Voice { override NoteHead.color=#(rgb-color 1.000 0.000 0.000)
d'1
}
}
% etc.
>>
markuplist {
wordwrap-lines { tiny bold "Part [bar 1, beat 1] note D" }
wordwrap-lines { smaller with-color #(rgb-color 1.000 0.000 0.000) "1 - Melody: Stagnation (5 notes <m3)" }
wordwrap-lines { smaller with-color #(rgb-color 1.000 0.000 0.000) "1 - Melody: Stagnation (5 notes <m3)" }
}
markuplist {
wordwrap-lines { tiny bold "Part [bar 1, beat 1] note D" }
wordwrap-lines { smaller with-color #(rgb-color 1.000 0.000 0.000) "1 - Melody: Stagnation (5 notes <m3)" }
wordwrap-lines { smaller with-color #(rgb-color 1.000 0.000 0.000) "1 - Melody: Stagnation (5 notes <m3)" }
}
% ... and so on