Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-06 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Feb 2019 at 11:39:20 (-0700), foxfanfare wrote: > Andrew Bernard wrote > > I am doing a long string quartet. The full score sits nicely in the middle > > of an A4 landscape page with a generous top margin. But there's a solo > > viola part that's very dense and the staves fill out the

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-05 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Andrew, > But I iwll ahve to have a separate book/bookpart/whatever and stitch the > score together. This is simple to do but very inconvenient when I am making > lots of drafts and sending them to the composer for checking, approval, and > viewing constantly. Did you try my suggestion

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi David, Thanks. Pretty much the same situation here. I was hoping I could change a margin on the fly - I believe this can be done in TeX. But I iwll ahve to have a separate book/bookpart/whatever and stitch the score together. This is simple to do but very inconvenient when I am making lots of

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Urs, Thanks. I have tried this in the past but it's a hack and never looks right, and this time I have cross page glissandi to deal with as well. Not an optimal solution. Andrew On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 06:55, Urs Liska wrote: > > Am 04.02.19 um 13:06 schrieb Andrew Bernard: > > the problem

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Saul, I am trying to avoid shrinking the page. It's already hard enough to read at the normal size for the rest of the score. Thanks anyway! Andrew On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 at 06:29, Saul Tobin wrote: > The size reduction for a single system strategy is simple to do within a > single Lilypond

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Urs Liska
Am 04.02.19 um 13:06 schrieb Andrew Bernard: the problem here is that everything in this score ties across bars and pages, and I don't see how to carry ties across voices between bookparts. Wouldn't \repeatTie and \laissezVibrerTie do that? (of course a semantically pretty hackish solution

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Saul Tobin
The size reduction for a single system strategy is simple to do within a single Lilypond score using \magnifyStaff and maybe a couple additional overrides. On Mon, Feb 4, 2019, 8:04 AM David Wright On Mon 04 Feb 2019 at 16:40:57 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > > I am doing a long string

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread foxfanfare
Andrew Bernard wrote > I am doing a long string quartet. The full score sits nicely in the middle > of an A4 landscape page with a generous top margin. But there's a solo > viola part that's very dense and the staves fill out the whole page very > tightly right to the bottom, and it looks clumsy

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Feb 2019 at 16:40:57 (+1100), Andrew Bernard wrote: > I am doing a long string quartet. The full score sits nicely in the middle > of an A4 landscape page with a generous top margin. But there's a solo > viola part that's very dense and the staves fill out the whole page very > tightly

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Andrew, > Is it possible to alter the top margin for just a single page in the midst of > a score where it is otherwise OK? Not that I know of… But couldn’t you just let the viola page be squishy, and then use explicit system positioning to move the systems where you want? It’s a little

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-02-04 4:06 am, Andrew Bernard wrote: Hi Aaron, Thanks for taking so much care with this answer. But there's a problem. The viola solo in this (New Complexity) score for a quartet is incredibly dense and fills the whole page to the point that I have to have zero bottom margin. There's

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Andrew Bernard
Hi Aaron, Thanks for taking so much care with this answer. But there's a problem. The viola solo in this (New Complexity) score for a quartet is incredibly dense and fills the whole page to the point that I have to have zero bottom margin. There's very high ledger notes and very low ones, so that

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-02-03 9:40 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote: I am doing a long string quartet. The full score sits nicely in the middle of an A4 landscape page with a generous top margin. But there's a solo viola part that's very dense and the staves fill out the whole page very tightly right to the bottom,

Re: Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-04 Thread Valentin Villenave
On 2/4/19, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Is it possible to alter the top margin for just a single page in the midst > of a score where it is otherwise OK? The only (hackish) way I could imagine would be to disable top-margin entirely and instead put your "comfortable" top-margin as a \vspace in a

Reducing top margin for a single page in a score

2019-02-03 Thread Andrew Bernard
I am doing a long string quartet. The full score sits nicely in the middle of an A4 landscape page with a generous top margin. But there's a solo viola part that's very dense and the staves fill out the whole page very tightly right to the bottom, and it looks clumsy because there is lots of space