> On 10 Jun 2019, at 17:50, Aaron Hill wrote:
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> On 2019-06-10 9:12 am, Michael Hendry wrote:
>> I can usually get a reasonable result by tweaking global-staff-size,
>> but here’s an example of the bottom of a page with
>> [ . . . ]
>> Am I tweaking the wrong parameter?
>> Is there a more
> On 10 Jun 2019, at 17:37, Simon Albrecht wrote:
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> On 10.06.19 18:12, Michael Hendry wrote:
>> Is there a more elegant way of ensuring that a leadsheet fits in one page?
>
>
> Of course there is – try using the paper variables page-count, system-count
> and for multi-page scores
On 2019-06-10 9:12 am, Michael Hendry wrote:
I can usually get a reasonable result by tweaking global-staff-size,
but here’s an example of the bottom of a page with
[ . . . ]
Am I tweaking the wrong parameter?
Is there a more elegant way of ensuring that a leadsheet fits in one
page?
On 10.06.19 18:12, Michael Hendry wrote:
Is there a more elegant way of ensuring that a leadsheet fits in one page?
Of course there is – try using the paper variables page-count,
system-count and for multi-page scores systems-per-page. Sometimes it
takes all three of them, sometimes only
Oh Wise Ones,
I use Lilypond to produce jazz leadsheets for concert, Bb and Eb instruments,
and find I often have to tweak parts to get them to fit on to a single A4 page.
Alto sax parts tend to need a bit more compression because they tend to have
more ledger lines at the top of the staff.
I
