Re: padding at top of first page

[Alexander Kobel]

Hugh Myers wrote:
> How do I remove it such that each page begins at same top-left corner?
> --hsm


Hi, Hugh,

there are a few settings mentioned in the paper layout which might help 
you, but there's quite a difference between 2.12.x and 2.13.y.
Most notably are, of course, top-margin and left-margin, as well as 
indent, then come head-separation, page-top-spacing, top-title-spacing, 
top-system-spacing...  Have a look at

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.12/Documentation/user/lilypond/Page-formatting#Page-formatting
and

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/notation/page-formatting#page-formatting
respectively.

Anyway, I assume if you really want the page tightly fitted around the 
glyphs, you might be in trouble, since some glyphs have an extent not 
matching the actual "drawn" region.
If you're not afraid of using the command line, if you're on Linux 
(might work on Windows also, but I have no clue if you can get all the 
required tools there), and if the settings explained in the Notation 
Reference don't help, I can dig out a small script which really gives a 
tight crop.  It's completely unaware of LilyPond, though, and I assume 
it only works for single pages, so you might have to use pdftk, 
jpdftweak or similar to burst the LilyPond output into single page PDFs, 
crop them and reassemble them again.  Oh, and crops all borders, not 
just top and left, and I don't think there's an easy way to modify this.


Cheers,
Alexander