RE: Using Lilypond to produce publication-ready music

[Nick Payne]

I see someone has answered about the L/R margins. For a larger top margin
only on p.1, if you want additional space between the title and first stave,
you can attach a markup something like

^\markup { " " \raise #12 { " " } }

To the first note.

If you want the additional space above the title, you can use something like

title = \markup { \lower #12 "Title here" }

Nick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden On
> Behalf Of Mark Engelberg
> Sent: Tuesday, 8 September 2009 4:28 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Using Lilypond to produce publication-ready music
> 
> For my first outing with Lilypond, I wanted to see whether I could
> produce sheet
> music that fits this publication specification:
> http://tinyurl.com/barbershop-notation-manual
> 
> Note that this document spells out exactly what is expected for this
> style of
> music, and a full example is given at the end of the document.
> 
> The basic SATB template works reasonably well as a starting point.
> 
> Here are some of the issues I have faced:
>
> [snip]...
> 
> Second, a more substantial margin at the top is expected on the first
> page
> (about 2 inches, including the title area), and I don't see any way to
> tweak
> just the first page.
>