Hello I'm currently exploring layout in lilypond and have come across a problem which I haven't noticed before and it's kind of a show stopper for me. In Elaine Gould's excellent "Behind bars" she states:
"Match the levels of top and bottom staves across facing pages, regardless of whether the pages have the same number of staves. Ideally pages should have consistent top and bottom stave levels throughout a piece." (p. 487) I take this to mean that that the top stave lines should be at the same distance from the top of the page throughout a piece, or at least on facing pages. But apparently, this kind of constraint is not really possible with lilypond. Experimenting a bit with setting top-margin, I noticed that this setting determines the distance from the top edge of the page to the stave's "skyline", and this assuming the header markup is turned off. In many cases this would not be such a problem, as the highest object on the top staff would be the bar number. But in cases where there are high notes on ledger lines, or other objects high above the top staff, this would lead to the distance between the top of the page and the actual top line of the top staff changing from page to page, which creates a somewhat unpleasant appearance for facing pages. So, am I missing something or is this the expected behavior for Lilypond? Is this something that can be changed in some way? I also have a related question about headers and footers. I noticed that the documentation does not discuss at all the relation between headers, footers and page margins. How do the headers and footers affect page margins? Do they just gobble up space at the printable edges? Thanks Sharon -- View this message in context: http://lilypond.1069038.n5.nabble.com/Top-margin-tp186119.html Sent from the User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user