On Mon 04 Feb 2019 at 11:39:20 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > 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 think there is a better way (at least it is the one that I use), simply > with > \overrideProperty Score.NonMusicalPaperColumn.line-break-system-details > #'((Y-offset . -10)) > > Place it before the first note of the highest system of your page and then > you can gain some space in your top margin.
This appears to raise the top system without moving anything else; specifically, without moving the other systems upwards in proportion. OTOH running LP a second time with smaller margins (and stealing a page) redistributes the staves automatically. It also takes care of page numbers etc. (BTW it might sometimes be more tasteful to steal pages two by two, ie as double spreads.) > I often use #'((Y-offset . 0)) because I think the margins should stay > intact and never have content inside (that's the whole purpose of the > margins !). But LP calculate the distance of the first stave between the top > markup (generally the page number) and the highest thing in the first staff. > But in some cases it isn't convenient, for instance on ottava bracket in the > middle of the line will not interfer with the page number and there is no > reason to align the bottom of the page number to this item. That's where I > find this command verry useful because it will put the ottava bracket > exactly at the limit of the margin. > > I don't know if what I said was clear enough! Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
