> On 21 Jul 2023, at 23:08, Shane Brandes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Today I was working on a project and I tried setting the top and bottom
> margins in the paperblock in the 2.24.0 version. Nothing changed so I ended
> up editing the paper-defaults-init.ly <http://paper-defaults-init.ly/>. That
> caused the change I wanted, but why isn't the paper block part working? The
> side margins work just fine. It is odd and was a time waster finding a
> workaround. Any explanations?
>
> regards,
> Shane
I suspect you set the paper-size AFTER the top-margin
Working:
{ c' }
\paper {
#(set-paper-size "a4")
top-margin = 60
}
Not working:
{ c' }
\paper {
top-margin = 60
#(set-paper-size "a4")
}