Re: default margins

[Valentin Villenave]

2009/3/18 Pekka Siponen <address@hidden>:
> The default margins for a4 seem a little too narrow. The normal I see in 
> scores
> is about 2 cm wide. If the margins are only 1 cm thick, the page seems too
> crowded. Also it is a legibility issue: usually for text, the lenght of a line
> should not exceed 50–70 characters, otherwise the eye has trouble finding the
> next line.

Greetings,

which kind of printed text are you referring to?

As for the score margins, we'd need several scanned examples from
various sources, and precise measures before considering modifying
LilyPond's default settings.

Regards,
Valentin