Thank you for the suggestions so far (one of them was off-list). They should enable me to do what I asked for, i.e. to leave a blank space at the top of certain right-hand pages.
But even what I asked for isn't what I would really like in a perfect world, which is as follows. The items are numbered sequentially, starting with number 1. At the top of each page, I would like to have (in fairly large print) the number(s) of the item(s) contained on that page, placed at the outer edge of the page. Sometimes there might be 2 items on a page. Other items might take up 1 or 2 pages, possibly more. So, for example, I would like the following: Page 1, containing items 1 and 2: header shows '1&2' Pages 2-3, each containing a single item: headers show '3' and '4' respectively Pages 4-5, containing item 5 spread over the 2 pages: headers show '5' and '(5)' I don't want the actual page numbers shown at all. I'm not sure that there is any way of doing this in Lilypond. Clearly I need to specify the contents of the page header separately for each item, but so far as I can see I can only have page headers which repeat through the whole book. If I specify oddHeaderMarkup etc. in the files for individual items, which are called by my top-level file, I find that the last one is applied to the whole document. Is there some way of doing what I want which would still allow me to end up with a single output file? David On Wed, 2024-10-16 at 22:03 +0100, David Sumbler wrote: > I am setting a series of items for a single melody instrument (i.e. > using one stave). These items are generally quite short and will fit > on one page. Sometimes I can even get 2 on a page. > > But a few of them require 2 pages, and naturally I try to arrange > things so that they cover a left-hand page and a right-hand page in > that order. > > At the head of each item I have a markup which takes up something > like 2 cm. of space. I would like to create a similar empty space on > the right-hand page of a 2-page item, so that the first stave of the > 2nd page is roughly lined up with the top stave on the left-hand > page. > > I can't add a markup in the middle of a score unless it is somehow > attached to a stave. I could perhaps do something like create an > invisible staccato dot on a note in the top stave of the page, and > give it an extreme Y-offset. > > But I can't help feeling there must be a more elegant and orthodox > way of doing what I want. Suggestions, please? > > David
