Hello everyone!
I’m a composer that after having spent a lot of
years with Finale decided to move to a better sw for music
writing and wanted to embrace Lilypond.
Which is beautiful… but!
I’m really spending more time banging my head on the
wall and trying to getting a sense of the manual (which is
complete and well written but… very hard to parse if you go just
a little in detail), than composing music.
And of course I cannot allow myself to do it,
because it’s my work.
Sorry for the surge, but I want to still give a
chance to Lilypond before using a graphic sw to fix it or worse
getting sadly back to Finale…
This is my problem, as you see in the image:
1) how can I separate more my name from the music?
2) how can I separate the notes from the bar?
You have a few options for that sort of situation, one of which
could be as simple as just moving the notehead... i.e.
It is frustrating because, while in Finale it is
very elementary to fix these, in Lilypond I couldn’t find a way
that didn’t assume I know the manual by heart.
Moreover it seems that I cannot do a proper layout
of the score because with system-system-spacing
#'basic-distance it seems I cannot choose an appropriate
distance between systems: changing the value only makes the
score to change from occupying one page and a half to occupying
three pages, without no middle layout (I want to put the score
in two pages).