Re: Tutorial

[Manuel]

Am 01/12/2006 um 09:38 schrieb Mats Bengtsson:

> Manuel wrote:
> > Am 01/12/2006 um 02:02 schrieb Geoff Horton:
> >
> > > > I added this and it worked in itself, but now the bar number
> > > > engraver, wich I had removed, is back again.
> > >
> > > You can have multiple things in the \layout block, like this:
> > >
> > >  \layout {
> > >    indent = 0.0\cm
> > >    \context {
> > >      \Score
> > >      \remove "Bar_number_engraver"
> > >    }
> > >  }
> >
> > Now it worked, thank you. Oddly, I get an error message though  
> > everything seems to be fine. Do I ignore it?
> Since you don't say what error message you get or include your file  
> in the email,
> it's impossible to provide any help here.

It says "gescheiterte Dateien".

> > I have been looking in the manual but couldn't find how to do  
> > these things:
> >
> > - Get more distance between the title and the first staff.
> There's currently some work in the development version 2.11 on the  
> exact
> positioning of the title. However, the simplest trick is to add  
> something that
> takes space but doesn't show up in print, for example
> \header{
>  title = "My title"
>  arranger = "   "
> }

This worked just fine.

> > - Increase the distance between one specific staff and the next.
> You can try the same kind of trick. However, read the sections on  
> vertical
> spacing in the manual (and the section on page formatting).

I have, but I don't understand it yet so as to use it succesfully. I  
tried the trick, but either the title above or the music below  
dissapeared.

> > - Increase the distance between the last staff and the end of the  
> > page (my printer keeps cutting off the last staff's first line)
> Do you, by chance, print on letter size paper? LilyPond will by  
> default produce
> its output for print on A4 size paper. Read in "Paper size" on how  
> to change
> this setting. Also, in the printout window on Acrobat, you can mark  
> that you
> want to scale the output to fit on your available paper, but that  
> should never
> be necessary if you tell the correct paper size to LilyPond directly.

I use A4 paper. I think the problem is in the printer, because it  
happens also when printing from other programs, so I would fiddle the  
layout to avoid the suspected printer bug.

Manuel