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:ela...@flaminghakama.com]
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2016 6:04 PM
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Subject: Re:Advice about layout / page formatting
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From: Jim Duke <j...@dukeboys.org<mailto:j...@dukeboys.org>>
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Cc:
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:39:13 +0000
Subject: Advice about layout / page formatting
I'm seeking advice on how to approach typesetting some hymns for use in
worship. The music in our worship is A Capella congregational singing, and we
use both sheet music, which we put in folders in the pews, and slides, which we
project on a large screen at the front of the auditorium. For each hymn I want
to produce a PDF of the sheet music, a set of PNG files for each of the slides,
and a MIDI file to aid in teaching the hymns to the congregation.
...
First, on the first slide of every verse I put a title at the top with the name
of the song and the song number in our hymal. On following slides from the
same verse, there is no title. But, I'd like the first system on every slide
to start at the same place on the page. As we present the slides the movement
of the systems around on the page is distracting. I'd like to fix them on the
page if I could. Because of how large I want the fonts to be, I typically can
fit two systems on each page. I have no idea how to accomplish that. Is there
a parameter that directly controls the distance from the top of the page to the
first system?
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.
Included are some other page layout variables I tend to use.
\book {
\paper {
top-margin = #10
right-margin = #17
% First page spacing after header
markup-system-spacing #'padding = #6
% Subsequent page spacing after header
top-system-spacing #'minimum-distance = #14
% Spacing in between systems
system-system-spacing #'minimum-distance = #13
}
\score {
...
}
}
HTH,
David Elaine Alt
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underrated"
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