> 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

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