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Re: Page layout frustration


From: Walter Hofmeister
Subject: Re: Page layout frustration
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:58:23 -0600
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On 5/23/06 7:15 AM, "address@hidden"
<address@hidden> wrote:

> I'm trying to fit a piece of music onto one page. By default, lily
> formats it as 11 systems, 10 on the first page, 1 on the second. So I
> told lily to fit it in 10 systems - which it nicely laid out as 9 on the
> first page, 1 on the second! :-(
> 
> When I tell it to fit it in 9 systems, it finally puts it on one page,
> but it's all far too squashed. What I guess is happening is that it's
> putting the lily tag-line on the last page, and with both header and
> tagline there's only room for 9 systems.
> 
> What's annoying though, is that even though I've set top margin to zero,
> there's loads of wasted space at the top of the page ... and I guess
> even if I set the lily tag-line to blank, it would still need space for
> it ...
> 
> How do I free up all that wasted header space or otherwise gain room to
> fit my part cleanly on one page? I'd rather not delete the tag line :-)
> but is there any way of simply making that not exist, either?
> 
> I've also tried to look up the source code that actually lays out the headers
> and footers, but I've ended up in a pile of Scheme I can't make head nor tail
> of (titling.scm). If I need to drill deeper, can anybody give me any pointers
> (I want to do things like redefining headers and footers so I get a band-style
> title, when I've got multiple pages it puts the title as well as instrument on
> subsequent sheets, etc etc).
> 
> Cheers,
> Wol
> 
> 
Try adding this to the \paper block.

\paper {
  annotate-spacing = ##t
}

It will show you much about how you can reclaim more space on the page.

Walter H.






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