Re: Changing first-system indent

[David Sumbler]

Thanks for the answer to my query.  I now see that this is mentioned in
section 4.1.5 of the NR.  The mistake I was making was in trying to put
indent within a \paper block inside a \layout block.

Best wishes

David

On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 15:31 +0000, Trevor Daniels wrote:
> David, you wrote Thursday, November 19, 2015 3:14 PM
> 
> 
> >I have finally got to the stage of tidying up the score I have been
> > working on.
> [snip]
> > For the first movement of the score, I have Staff.instrumentName defined
> > for each instrument, and this requires an indent of 16mm.  However, in
> > subsequent movements I do not set Staff.instrumentName, so no indent is
> > required.
> > 
> > The variable 'indent' is defined in a \paper block, and I now see that
> > the lowest level context that a \paper block can appear in is \bookpart.
> > 
> > I could, of course, quite easily restructure the file so that each
> > movement is contained in a separate \bookpart, but this would mean that
> > each movement then starts on a new page.  This is not what I want: I
> > prefer the movements to follow one another with no page break to
> > emphasize the integrity of the whole work.
> > 
> > Is there a way round this problem?  In other words, is there some way I
> > can force the first system of the 2nd and subsequent movements to be
> > printed with no indent, without each movement necessarily appearing on a
> > new page?
> 
> indent can also be set in a \layout block, which is at \score level.
> 
> Trevor