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From: | Jim Duke |
Subject: | RE: Re:Advice about layout / page formatting |
Date: | Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:39:10 +0000 |
Thanks for getting back with me to ensure all of my questions had been answered. I had tried the variables you mentioned and it was a real fight. What I ended up doing was
take total control over system placement. The way I ended up working was to not put any explicit system or page breaks in the music itself; but to have a NullVoice that held such things. I had one set of breaks for the sheet music, and one set of the slides.
For the slides breaks voice, I added controls to place each system explicitly. This took things further than what I originally intended; which is a good thing for me. In most cases there are exactly two systems on each slide. This allows me to ensure every
system on every slide is put on the page exactly at the same place. For my tastes, this is less visually jarring than letting the systems jump about when slides are advanced. Here is my breaks NullVoice for one of the hymns: slideMusicBreaks = \relative c { \setSystemOffset \defaultTopSystemOffset s1 | \noBreak s1 | \noBreak s1 | \noBreak s1 | \break \setSystemOffset \defaultBottomSystemOffset s1 | \noBreak s1 | \noBreak s1 | \noBreak s1 | \break \setSystemOffset \defaultTopSystemOffset s1 | \noBreak s1 | \noBreak s1 | \noBreak s1 | \break \setSystemOffset \defaultBottomSystemOffset s1 | \noBreak s1 | \noBreak s1 | \noBreak s1 \bar "|." } The _expression_ \setSystemOffset is defined elsewhere as: setSystemOffset = #(define-music-function (parser location offset) (number?) #{ \overrideProperty Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn.line-break-system-details.Y-offset #offset #}) A trivial little function that make the use of it a bit more clear for me. From: Flaming Hakama by Elaine [mailto:address@hidden
I was going through old digests and didn't see this part of your question answered.
There are a pair of variables that influence where the music starts on the page: one for the first page, and one for all the others. I say "influence" since I think these are offsets from the header, not an
absolute position on the page. I typically set these in a paper block overrides within a book, since I often have to (or want to) tweak these on per-book basis.
HTH,
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