Adjusting paper

[Davide Romanini]

Hi,

I don't like how lilypond (or LaTeX) handles paper margins. In fact, it 
leaves too
space at bottom of each page, it could place there another line of music, 
or, at least,
it should change the spacing between systems to better fit the space 
available in each
page. How can I change this? I tried to change the geometry parameters in 
the latex
file generated by lilypond but I've hadn't success...

Another question: when I make two chords like <gis d(> <)a cis> I want a 
slur starting
from d and ending on a. Generally Lilypond places the slur in the right 
way, but sometimes
it simply ignores my directives and places the slur in a very ugly way. 
I've used a simple
workaround for this using another voice with invisible stems and adding the 
slur in this voice
instead. I think anyway that it's a very big bug in lilypond if it cannot 
place the slur
where I want in chords. I'm wrong?

Another question (again... ;-): there's a way to make a slur that firstly 
is down then
change direction and goes up (and viceversa)? Often when editing piano 
music I need a slur
following a voice that changes staff. Surely I can make it using direct 
postscript in the
source, but I've noticed the details(list) and also control-points(list) 
parameters for
the slur grob. I've tried the lattest but it seems to not change anything...

Another question (okay, this is the last): there's a way to change the 
inclination of a
hairpin? Often, in very complex piano music is impossible to place an 
hairpin because
it collides with other objects. I'd want to change it's inclination to 
avoid collisions.
I've not found any parameter to change this... :-(

Bye, Romaz

PS: Sorry for my very very bad English, I hope you have understood anyway...