Re: Score content spilling off left side of page

[Nathan Ho]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Stan Mulder <address@hidden> wrote:
> For some reason a score I made won't fit all the text on the left side of
> the page. I cannot find anything different about this score than previous 
> ones.
>
> The first page looks okay, but it's the subsequent pages with the instrument
> abbreviations that are getting cut off with no margin at all.
>
> I'm not using margin commands. Not using the \paper block.
>
> I can't really upload a snippet because it is too much data, but here's a
> screnshot:
>
> http://tradjazzbands.com//media/Screenshot%20from%202015-03-25%2016:19:01.png
>
> Stan

This is a known bug
(https://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=766). The
solution is straightforward: just increase "margin-left" in the \paper
block. If you also want the first system aligned with the others, use
\paper { indent = 0 }.

Regards,
Nathan