> I am typsetting the first few movements of Bach's Second Partita for
> unaccompanied violin, mostly because all the scribbled notes on my music
> are no longer even vaguely legible. I have a couple questions facing
> me...
Have you seen the edition at the GMD archive
http://www.gmd.de/Misc/Music/scores/ ?
> How do I change the vertical margins on the paper to get things shifted
> up? I am using a width of 7.5" on the music and would like to extend the
> music out to similar placings on the top and bottom of the page. Wide
> margins just make you stop to turn pages more often (:
Set the textheight paper variable:
\score{
...
\paper{
...
textheight = 7.5\in;
}
}
> The other question is, how do I force newlines in text, specifically the
> tagline?
As in ordinary LaTeX with \\, but since backslashes have to be escaped
in strings you have to write "First line \\\\ second line"
\Mats