On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Jayaratna <jayara...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd simply like it to be as large as the textwidth. I have had a good
> result
> by manually inserting a slightly shorter line-width (2mm less than the
> textwidth) in the paper block.
>
There is currently no way to fix the width of a lilypond score: lilypond
considers a `line' to begin with the line that starts a system, so anything
that is to the /left/ of that, such as the system start bracket, the
instrument name, or bar numbers will make the actual line-width longer than
you have specified. Fixing the paper width doesn't solve the problem
either: if the left margin and indent are both 0, lilypond will put stuff
off the page to the left (or, in the case of eps-backend images, make the
image wider than the paper=width).
The workaround I use is either to use a shorter line-width (or
paper-width), or to add a little left-margin, but the value you need to use
varies depending on the staff-size and on what lies outside of it, so you
just have to experiment every time and check how wide the images are. It's
tedious, and also the reason I stopped using lilypond-book (now I just
create the score images separately and include them manually).
I don't know if this is considered a bug (but I think it should be, or at
least a much-needed enhancement). As an example, consider the following
minimal example:
\version "2.18.2"
\paper {
left-margin = 0
indent = 0
}
\new Staff \with { instrumentName = "CAN'T SEE ME" } {
c
}
hth,
Kevin
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