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Re: "set-global-staff-size..." puzzle


From: James E. Bailey
Subject: Re: "set-global-staff-size..." puzzle
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:49:58 +0200

It isn't simple.
Chapter 4, Spacing Issues is (for me) a difficult read, and somewhat complex. Also, I read the email thread from a couple of months ago about this every couple of weeks, I don't understand it all fully, but I understand a little more each time I read it.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-user/2008-06/msg00345.html

Am 20.08.2008 um 12:56 schrieb Tom Cloyd:

I suspect this is simple - but not for me.

I've tried hard to solve this one myself, but I'm not coming up with ANYTHING helpful anywhere.

If I have

"#(set-global-staff-size 20)"

in my code, I get  6 staffs spread across 1.5 pages (#6 is all that's on page 2). If I set the size to 18, I get the crowded onto one page with 2" at the bottom.

I cannot figure out what's happening, or how to get better control of spacing between staffs.


Also, the title of the piece is too high on the page. I can set a top-margin, but it's ignored. Can't find documentation on how to control this either.

Here's the top part of my code...

\version "2.10.0"

#(set-global-staff-size 20) % 20 this is said to be standard for most scores  
\paper {
  #(set-default-paper-size "letter" 'portrait)          ragged-last-bottom = ##t % turns off vertical justify
  left-margin = 0.6\in
  line-width = 7\in     % works better than specifying R-margin
  bottom-margin = .7\in
  top-margin = 0.15\in   }

\layout {
  indent = 0.0\cm % remove indent on first staff
}

\header {
  title = "Prelude #2"
  subtitle = "A legato etude for classical guitar (2008.08.13)"
  composer = "Tom Cloyd"                                                    tagline = \markup { \small "score set by Tom Cloyd - with Lilipond - address@hidden"} % this is the copyright line   }

Thanks in advance for any suggestions anyone has!


Tom

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