I've been looking at musixsty.tex, musixdoc.pdf, pmxab
output and previous posts here. There seems to be quite a
lot of confusion about page-layout dimensions for TeX. I've
re-written the relevant material in musixdoc as follows:
The following values of page-layout parameters will allow as
much material as possible on a page, provided the printer
supports these dimensions, which imply half-inch margins:
A4 letter
\hsize=190mm \hsize=7.5in
\vsize=270mm \vsize=10in
If a score is going to be "published" at a public repository
(such as IMSLP), you may want to allow for *either* A4 *or*
letter paper by setting the \hsize to 190mm and the \vsize
to 10in.
To determine the maximal dimensions that *your* printer is
capable of, process the standard file testpage.tex with
LaTeX and print the result. The "rulers" on four sides will
indicate how much of the one-inch "margin" material outside
the frame can actually be printed. Your \hsize and \vsize
parameters can be increased, or, if necessary, decreased
accordingly. If your score is going to be printed by a
publisher or a colleague, you can send testpage.pdf to them
to determine what margins are necessary for their printer.
For *any* values of \hsize and \vsize, material will
normally be centered on the page by using one of the
following command sequences.
For A4 paper (210mm x 297mm):
\hoffset=210mm\advance\hoffset-\hsize\divide\hoffset2
\advance\hoffset-1.0in
\voffset=297mm\advance\voffset-\vsize\divide\voffset2
\advance\voffset-1.0in
For letter-size paper (8.5in x 11in):
\hoffset=8.5in\advance\hoffset-\hsize\divide\hoffset2
\advance\hoffset-1.0in
\voffset=11in\advance\voffset-\vsize\divide\voffset2
\advance\voffset-1.0in
and similarly for other paper sizes.
However, if the one-inch margins on the testpage output
are not *symmetric*, the printer may be mis-aligned. If
this can't be corrected, the margin offsets will have
to be adjusted. Ideally, this should be done in the TeX
configuration so all TeX output will be corrected, but
offsets can be adjusted for just musixtex output using
\advance\hoffset ... and/or \advance\voffset ... after the
basic settings given above.
Bob T.
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