On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 14:15 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to fit a piece of music onto one page. By default, lily > formats it as 11 systems, 10 on the first page, 1 on the second. So I > told lily to fit it in 10 systems - which it nicely laid out as 9 on the > first page, 1 on the second! :-(
No one seems to have mentioned yet that you can try setting ragged-last-bottom to ##f in the paper block. This will prevent lilypond from having non-full pages at the end of the score. > > When I tell it to fit it in 9 systems, it finally puts it on one page, > but it's all far too squashed. What I guess is happening is that it's > putting the lily tag-line on the last page, and with both header and > tagline there's only room for 9 systems. > > What's annoying though, is that even though I've set top margin to zero, > there's loads of wasted space at the top of the page ... and I guess > even if I set the lily tag-line to blank, it would still need space for > it ... > > How do I free up all that wasted header space or otherwise gain room to > fit my part cleanly on one page? I'd rather not delete the tag line :-) > but is there any way of simply making that not exist, either? > > I've also tried to look up the source code that actually lays out the headers > and footers, but I've ended up in a pile of Scheme I can't make head nor tail > of (titling.scm). If I need to drill deeper, can anybody give me any pointers > (I want to do things like redefining headers and footers so I get a > band-style title, when I've got multiple pages it puts the title as well as > instrument on subsequent sheets, etc etc). > > Cheers, > Wol > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
