With the answers of Mr. Icking (tank you) i tried to do some homework
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0. Put the score in the center of the page
0.1. Printer dependencys, how to manage?
My printer (lj4M) needs margins of minimum 6mm.
Installing 10mm margin will do it.
0.2. Postscript features (based on dvips en gsview)
- the reference point is lower left on the page
- if not default use the option:
DVIPS.EXE -e0 -t letter %1
or DVIPS.EXE -e0 -t A4 %1
1. Maximum pagelayout with 10mm margin on the 4 sides
1.0. Preferences
1.0.1 adding a footline: \advance\vsize-12pt or \advance\vsize-24pt
to be changed for different fonts?
1.0.2 adding a "piano bracket": \advance\hoffset 3mm\advance\hsize-3mm
to be changed for different musicsizes?
1.1. lower the 1 inch default margings to 10mm:
\hoffset=-15.4mm\voffset=-15.4mm
- A4 : \hsize=210mm\vsize=297mm
- Letter : \hsize=8.5in\vsize=11in or \hsize=216mm\vsize=279mm
- A4 and letter : \hsize=210mm\vsize=11in
1.2. \advance\hsize-20mm\advance\vsize-20mm
1.3. Printing on A4 paper - adding more corrections
- A4 layout ( DVIPS.EXE -e0 -t A4 %1 ): no corrections
- Letter layout ( DVIPS.EXE -t letter %1 ):
\advance\hoffset=-3mm\advance\voffset=9mm
(210-216)/2=-3 and (297-279)/2=9
- A4 and letter ( DVIPS.EXE -t letter %1 ): \advance\voffset=9mm
1.4. Printing on letter paper - adding more corrections
- A4 layout: ?
- Letter layout: no corrections
- A4 and letter (DVIPS.EXE -t letter %1): \advance\voffset=9mm
2. Nice pagelayout
If a score does not fill the whole page, one could use larger margins,
i.e. the default margins of Latex (or Tex?)
propably this will do it (resetting the margings of musixtex):
\hoffset=0mm\voffset=0mm
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Hope this is right -- Andre
