Re: Page layout frustration (+ documentation note)

[lilypond]

address@hidden wrote:
> 
> From: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 8:15 AM
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> > 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 ...
> 
> I don't think so, I think putting 'tagline = ""' in the header works.
> 
Thanks, tried it, it worked. Still leaves far too much blank space up top, 
however...

That documentation note - I looked up tagline in the index and it pointed me to 
p248, s10.4.2 page formatting. I don't know whether it's documented under 
\header or not, but surely that's where I should have been pointed?

Cheers,
Wol