Comment #1 on issue 3808 by [email protected]: revise default page margins
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=3808
Janek adds:
what is the reason that the default margins are so small?
Someone should do 'git blame' to see the commit that did this.
..actually, judging by the link you provided
(http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/default-margins-tp44740p44741.html)
the reason was probably to have line-width the same as in music
published by respected publishers, which uses *different* paper size.
[snip]
I have no reference book on this at hand, but my proposal is:
10/15 15/15 | 10/20
and a top-markup-spacing basic-distance of about 4\mm.
I agree with left/right margins, but not top/bottom. Top/bottom are
more tricky because you *want* to allow the page to compress when
there's really a lot of content; so the adjustment should be done
using compressible top-markup-spacing and the like.
Keep in mind that the tagline is present on just one page, and the
bottom "whitespace area" is quite different from bottom-margin because
of tagline.
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