Re: Fitting more bars in a line

[David Bobroff]

Keith Dunsire wrote:
> I am attempting to transpose a victoria piece from CPDL which is written in
> Lilypond (http://www.upv.es/coro/victoria/ly/Vadam_Et_Circuibo_Civitatem.ly) the
> PDf is http://www.upv.es/coro/victoria/pdf/Vadam_Et_Circuibo_Civitatem.pdf. 
>
> I am using 2.11.something and have had to mess around with the Ly file to get it
> to print. However I can't get it to print as compactly (7 a4 pages) as the
> original PDF, as whatever I do I can't fit enough bars on a line.
>
> I have used {fontSize = #-6
>         \override StaffSymbol #'staff-space = #(magstep -6)} but that makes the 
> notes
> and text smaller but the bar width stays the same.
>
> Please can anyone suggest what I can do to fit 8 or 9 bars per line rather than
> 7 or 8.

In the latest 2.11.x there is a page-count in which you can specify the 
total number of pages.  If that fails, you can try forcing more measures 
on a line using \noBreak.

-David