Re: Question from a new user

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Faulk" <address@hidden>
To: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: Question from a new user


> Phil,

Please always "reply all" so that others can also answer your questions and 
benefit from the answers.

> Thanks -- I had looked at that but, as a new user, didn't want to worry 
> about having to specify the beaming. I have enough problems learning this 
> system to see if it will do what I want.

Manual beaming is a doddle:

g8 [ a ] bes4 g4 f2 \bar "|."

Note the square brackets after the note where you want beams to start and 
finish.

> I'm using Scribus and including music snippets within text. Previously I'd 
> been using Encore to score the music, producing a PDF and then extracting 
> the part I wanted. I was hoping this would give me better control while 
> keeping everything in a single document. So far it seems to work -- except 
> that I'm having problems getting the snippet fixed to a particular size. 
> I've tried this:
>
> #(set-global-staff-size 7)
> ...
>
> \paper {
>
> left-margin = 0
>
> indent = 0
>
> line-size = 4\in
>
> }

> but the results seem inconsistent. Is there a better way?

I'm assuming it's inconsistency in the width.  Have you looked up 
"ragged-right" ?

--
Phil Holmes