On 3/19/09 7:53 AM, "Graham Percival" <gra...@percival-music.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:03:42PM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote:
>>
>> I have! At one point I was frustrated by this very issue
>> and went through my score library with a ruler. Valentin
>> mentioned "precise" measurements, but to my surprise,
>> measured values from any one publisher deviated quite a
>> lot from score to score, sometimes from page to page.
>
> I think that's part of how page turns work out much nicer in
> printed manuscripts than by default in LilyPond. I was
> complaining to my brother about how difficult it was to work out
> page turns in one particular piece of mine, and he pointed out
> that I was probably using the same margins for every page.
>
> A priori, I would say that changing margins are **not** a good
> idea... but since professional typesetters do it, and I never
> noticed myself in 25 years of music-playing, I have to admit that
> maybe it's a good idea.
>
>
> This would require the ability to change margins in lilypond
> on-the-fly, of course. I doubt that's possible in current page
> settings... and in any case, it would mix up content and
> presentation a fair amount. Unless we defined something like:
> \paper {
> line-width = 180mm
> \page #2 {
> line-width = 150mm
> }
> }
>
>
It would seem to me that it would be better to set maximum-line-width and
minimum-line-width properties. This would then allow the LilyPond spacing
engine to try adjusting line-width between those limits to see if it could
get better spacing.
And by setting maximum-line-width and minimum-line-width to the same values,
you would have exactly the current behavior.
Carl
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