Re: starting the first page on the left [in 2.21]

2021-12-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Lukas, > If the task really is to treat 1 as a left page, I don't see an option other > than tweaking the page number output routine. Unfortunately, all of this > seems to be quite hard-coded, so I did: > [snip] > which has the dubious benefit of being both brutal _and_ ugly. Well, I do

Re: starting the first page on the left [in 2.21]

2021-12-14 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Kieren, Anyway… I've added a \bookpart { \paper { oddHeaderMarkup = ##f } \markup \null } before the \bookpart containing the score, and now the margins are as I would have hoped, as are the page numbers (because my titling is based on bookpart-page-number). If the task

Re: starting the first page on the left [in 2.21]

2021-12-14 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi all, > >> Double-sided printers tend to have a dim view towards this approach, too. > > Musical directors tend to have a dim view of (a) unnecessary page > turns and (b) two-page songs which start on page 2. ;) Which has absolutely nothing to do with how to

Re: starting the first page on the left [in 2.21]

2021-12-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, > Double-sided printers tend to have a dim view towards this approach, too. Musical directors tend to have a dim view of (a) unnecessary page turns and (b) two-page songs which start on page 2. ;) Anyway… I've added a \bookpart { \paper { oddHeaderMarkup = ##f } \markup

Re: starting the first page on the left [in 2.21]

2021-12-14 Thread David Kastrup
Kieren MacMillan writes: > Hi Lukas, > >>> One of my pieces fits nicely on two pages, so I'd like to have it >>> "reversed", i.e., page 1 on the left and page 2 on the right. >> >> Wouldn't this usually be done as >> >> \paper { >> first-page-number = 2 >> print-first-page-number = ##t >>

Re: starting the first page on the left [in 2.21]

2021-12-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Lukas, >> One of my pieces fits nicely on two pages, so I'd like to have it >> "reversed", i.e., page 1 on the left and page 2 on the right. > > Wouldn't this usually be done as > > \paper { > first-page-number = 2 > print-first-page-number = ##t > } > > ? > > I tend to get a little

Re: starting the first page on the left [in 2.21]

2021-12-14 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Kieren, Am 14.12.21 um 17:00 schrieb Kieren MacMillan: Hi all, I've got a two-sided page layout: \paper { paper-height = 11\in paper-width = 8.5\in top-margin = 0.375\in bottom-margin = 0.75\in two-sided = ##t inner-margin = 0.625\in outer-margin = 0.625\in

Re: starting the first page on the left [in 2.21]

2021-12-14 Thread Paul Scott
Probably not the answer you want but I just print the title information on page one so that the publishing standard of page one on the righr is maintained. Paul On 12/14/21 09:00, Kieren MacMillan wrote: Hi all, I've got a two-sided page layout: \paper { paper-height = 11\in

starting the first page on the left [in 2.21]

2021-12-14 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi all, I've got a two-sided page layout: \paper { paper-height = 11\in paper-width = 8.5\in top-margin = 0.375\in bottom-margin = 0.75\in two-sided = ##t inner-margin = 0.625\in outer-margin = 0.625\in binding-offset = 0.25\in indent = 0.5\in short-indent = 0\in … One of