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Fit-to-single-page for lead sheets
From: |
Michael Hendry |
Subject: |
Fit-to-single-page for lead sheets |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Jul 2015 08:11:49 +0100 |
I use Lilypond to produce lead sheets for jazz players, which conventionally
have four bars per line and are adjusted in size to fit on a single page.
It’s simple enough to use…
#(set-global-staff-size 19)
…for example, to get the concert instrument version to fit the page, but I
often find that ledger lines introduced (or removed) in the automatic
production of Bb and Eb versions forces an additional page or leaves an
unnecessarily large gap at the bottom.
Even if I resolve this by tweaking the global staff size downwards to get the
Concert/Bb/Eb set correct in the song’s original key, I sometimes need to
transpose the whole piece for a singer, and end up having to go through the
process again.
I haven’t been able to find a fit-to-page feature which would handle this
automatically.
Michael
- Fit-to-single-page for lead sheets,
Michael Hendry <=