On Jun 23, 2009, at 7:15 AM, Innocent Smith wrote: > Hello, > > Attached is a pdf of a project I am working on right now, the > Sanctorale section of the Dominican hymnarium. I have been > experimenting with the page size so that I can print it on a > half-sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper. It has turned out very well, but there > are numerous instances of the music and words exceeding the margins, > e.g. on the 4th and 5th line of the first hymn, or the 4th line of the > second. I am able to deal with this by adding the forced line break > (z), but is there also some problem with the way I have set up the > document header? If there were a way to automatically fix at least > some of the problem areas it would save a lot of formatting time. > Please also feel free to give any other comments on the state of the > project. I would be happy to share to source files if anyone is > curious.
Hello, If you want to minimize the amount of manual linebreaking, you can try altering the values of \tolerance and \emergencystretch -- \tolerance is just an integer; \emergencystretch can be set with any TeX units of length (pt, in, em, etc.). Changing either/both can have significant impact on your layout, so some level of experimentation may be needed. The TeX default values are \tolerance=200 and \emergencystretch=0pt, and you would want to increase either/both. Increasing them too much, though, will produce significant whitespace in the scores. This ( http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=overfull ) page has a short summary of how these values affect the way line breaks are formed. Thanks for sharing your work; it looks like a very interesting project! Hope that helps, Tracy _______________________________________________ Gregorio-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
