Re: A6-sheet

[Andrew Tucker]

On Sep 25, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Jeroen Heijmans wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 22:28, Andrew Tucker <address@hidden 
> > wrote:
> > On Sep 25, 2009, at 12:54 PM, Jeroen Heijmans wrote:
> > > I've forced the evenly spread with 'system-count = 5' but, I think
> > > that's not the way to create small sheets(?).
> > > It's just something I can't really pinpoint.
> > > The staves need to be closer to eachother.
> > > Marchingsheet-music looks different than this.
> >
> > It looks better to me (notes spaced more naturally - and you get  
> > the staves
> > closer together) without the 'system-count=5'.
>
>
> Hmmzz.. it does look better.
> Last time I tried it, I got 2 pages out of it.
> What did I do wrong back then ;)
>
> Is the \paper { } stuff above '%annotate-spacing = ##t' really needed
> for this size or am I being completely wrong about the rest?
> Is there a simple way to tell lilypond to create only 1 page and to
> resize or even to scale down when needed? I think that that's the
> feature I'd like :D

As far as I know, there's no way to tell LilyPond, "whatever it takes,  
cram this onto 1 page" - and that's just because there are so very  
many options available to change the use of space! When I was last  
making marching parts, I used the following template:

#(set-global-staff-size 11) %11 for 'pocket scores' - I like 14 for  
readability
#(set-default-paper-size "5x7")
\paper {
         top-margin = 2\mm
        % bottom-margin = 2\mm
         page-top-space = 1\mm
         line-width = 6.7\in
         between-system-padding = 1\mm
        ragged-last = ##t %last system width
        % ragged-last-bottom = ##t %last page vertical spread
}

Where "5x7" was a custom paper size I made in ( paper.scm ? ), 5  
inches by 7 inches being the size of my flip-book pages;  "line-width"  
was necessary to set the right margin or something...  When I next  
make marching parts, I'll probably just use a6 'landscape like you did

- the real lesson here is to take out all those \paper arguments; then  
try adding in one at a time until you find the least that you really  
need to get the desired result. between-system-padding had the biggest  
single effect, if I remember correctly.

If you come up with something that really works well, could you share  
it? Or maybe someone out there already has a good marching flip-book- 
size template, and could put it in the snippets repository?

all the best,
  Andrew Tucker
  http://tuckerandrew.net