Hi, Thanks for that. I have resorted to lilypond-book in the end to squeeze the maximum amount of space from the paper, which wasn't as painful as I thought it would be!
My main problem seems to be that If I look at professionally produced stuff, within a system, the staves are always equidistant. I presume that somebody has taken the trouble to make sure everything fits and doesn't overlap within this regime when they placed all of the dynamics and stuff not in-staff. That way there are no vertical spacing issues. With that in mind, is there an easy way of "locking" the interstaff distance within a system so that all pages are consistent, even given that there may be overlaps which I can correct by tweaking? I know this is a bit naughty, but I'm sure that a consistently spaced score page is more pleasing to the eye than one that squeezes and stretches to requirement from page to page. Regards, Ralph -----Original Message----- From: Mats Bengtsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 February 2004 11:44 To: Ralph Little Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Score spacing. Did you notice the text on interscoreline and interscorelinefill at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.0/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Page-la yout.html#Page%20layout You might also want to fiddle with the textheight variable. /Mats Ralph Little wrote: > Hi, > I am having a problem with a score which, for the most part, fits fine > onto A4 landscape. > However, on one page, all the parts are double forte at about the same > point, and this pushes the staves apart sufficiently to drop the bottom > 1 1/2 staves off the bottom. > > I've fitted the score onto the page by reducing the Staff > MinimumVerticalExtent, so I guess I'm pushing it. > As an alternative I can restore the defaults and print onto A3 landscape > instead (or A4 portrait and suffer having more pages and a bit of > waste). I have a few options. > > As a general question of style though, I have a professionally produced > score which has the same number of staves and fits them all on > consistently and does not have this problem. Dynamic markings seem > abnormally small but look OK on a score. > > Am I expecting too much from something that is largely automated (lord > knows, it does a damn good job!) or are there some tricks to fitting a > score onto a compact area? > > Ralph > > --------- > Tribal Data Solutions has moved, please visit our website for more details http://www.tribaldata.co.uk. > This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and are sent on the basis of our copyright, e-mail and security policy which can be inspected by visiting http://www.tribaldata.co.uk/policies.asp. > If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete this message. Thank you. > ----------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Lilypond-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user -- ============================================= Mats Bengtsson Signal Processing Signals, Sensors and Systems Royal Institute of Technology SE-100 44 STOCKHOLM Sweden Phone: (+46) 8 790 8463 Fax: (+46) 8 790 7260 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.s3.kth.se/~mabe ============================================= _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
