The size reduction for a single system strategy is simple to do within a single Lilypond score using \magnifyStaff and maybe a couple additional overrides.
On Mon, Feb 4, 2019, 8:04 AM David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk wrote: > On Mon 04 Feb 2019 at 16:40:57 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > > I am doing a long string quartet. The full score sits nicely in the > middle > > of an A4 landscape page with a generous top margin. But there's a solo > > viola part that's very dense and the staves fill out the whole page very > > tightly right to the bottom, and it looks clumsy because there is lots of > > space at the top margin not able to be utilised. > > > > Is it possible to alter the top margin for just a single page in the > midst > > of a score where it is otherwise OK? > > I hit a problem like this in one of the first scores I ever set in LP, > where I had extra staves carrying repeated lyrics that just overwhelmed > one page. I took the approach taken by Britten's War Requiem full score > (but not as dramatic) and reduced the global-staff-size a little bit. > > As to how I managed that, I just ran the whole document in both sizes > (the pagination happened not to be thrown off) and then spliced the > page from one PDF to the other with pdftk. You could to the same thing > using a second score with different margins. (You might need a couple of > manual pageBreak insertions if the pagination slips.) > > Cheers, > David. > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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