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Phil Holmes
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From: Kevin Patrick Barry
To: lilypond-user
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 12:02 PM
Subject: precisely controlling with width of an example
Dear LilyPond users,
I am doing musical examples for a book, and the publisher requires a precise
width of 4inches. Is there any way to accomplish this in LilyPond? I can set
the line-width or the paper-width to 4 inches, but in both cases LilyPond will
produce slightly wider examples to include the system start brace, bar numbers,
or instrument names. In printed music these things normally stray into the
left margin, but I don't have that option for the book. For now I have to
manually add a margin of the right size depending on what kind of system
delimiter there is, and how many digits there are in the bar number, which
seems clunky. Does lilypond-book have some clever way of avoiding this
problem? I know it automatically detects the width of the textblock.
Here is a short example of what I am trying. Instead of a 4-inch image I am
getting 4.08 (adding a left-margin of .08 inches solves the problem).
\version "2.18.0"
#(ly:set-option 'backend 'eps)
#(ly:set-option 'aux-files #f)
\paper {
tagline = ##f
paper-width = 4\in
left-margin = 0
right-margin = 0
}
\score {
\new PianoStaff <<
\new Staff { c'1 }
\new Staff { c'1 }
>>
\layout {
indent = 0
ragged-right = ##f
}
}
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