Hi David,
> I have a page of music but it is a bit short on the page. I remember a long
> time ago that there was something involving padding (I think) as well as some
> opposing function that, when combined, would space out the systems to fill
> the page to the bottom margin. I've been
Hi David,
On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 10:47 AM bobr...@centrum.is
wrote:
> I have a page of music but it is a bit short on the page. I remember a
> long time ago that there was something involving padding (I think) as well
> as some opposing function that, when combined, would space out the systems
I have a page of music but it is a bit short on the page. I remember a long
time ago that there was something involving padding (I think) as well as some
opposing function that, when combined, would space out the systems to fill the
page to the bottom margin. I've been looking through the
> On 10 Jun 2019, at 17:50, Aaron Hill wrote:
>
> 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:
>
> 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
