On 22/09/15 20:51, Simon Albrecht wrote: > On 22.09.2015 21:42, Trevor Daniels wrote: >> Simon Albrecht wrote Tuesday, September 22, 2015 7:35 PM >> >>> I just came across the Orchestral template in LM A.6.I, and noticed two >>> flaws, one minor and one serious: >>> – Double basses usually aren’t notated in a \clef "bass_8", but as >>> transposing instruments (originating from the time when they were >>> sharing a staff with the violoncelli). All the scores I have here, from >>> Beethoven through Mendelssohn, Bruckner and Mahler to Hindemith, confirm >>> this. I attach a version of the template where this is changed. >> Thanks >> >>> – The image rendition in the docs is extremely compressed, with >>> overlapping stuff, staves touching one another &c. This is a really bad >>> example and needs to be changed; how is this done? I don’t know the >>> framework in lilypond-book-preamble.ly; certainly there will be someone >>> who can quickly say how to allow the score more space. >> I think for this example all that is needed is to reduce the global staff >> size, which is set (unusually) in this file to 17. > I’m afraid it won’t be as easy. I also thought that way, but I tried it > (loading the complete source file for the image with \include > "lilypond-book-preamble.ly" etc.) and it doesn’t make a difference: > everything gets smaller, but is compressed and cut the same. >
Yes I verified this too. Well I tried to fiddle about the 'Flexible Vertical Spacing' (NR 4.4.1) http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation-big-page#flexible-vertical-spacing-within-systems I think a combination of these will help, the problem I have is that I cannot work out which. :( I've never got my head around these settings. James _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
