At 11:43 AM -0400 8/16/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
Maybe someone could shed some light on "system margins." I've tried several ways to handle them (mostly for piano-vocals and lead sheets) and find that the easiest most efficient way seems to be to set them all to zero, and just use "distance between systems" for spacing. Is there something wrong with this method that I'm missing? Is there a benefit to adding space around a system?
Thanks for your input.
- Ken
Adding space above or below a system will prevent things that
extend beyond the staff lines (ledger line notes, lyrics, chord
symbols) from colliding with things like page 2 title and instrument
text boxes, or from moving accidentally outside the printable area of
the page.
But if you are manually tweaking individual pages anyway, setting
system margins to zero is fine. Just watch for ledger lines moving off
the page at the top or bottom.
The way I understand it, any space you add to system margins has
to be subtracted from distance between systems to keep identical
spacing. In reality, I eyeball it. I use inches rather than points or
EVPUs because I can estimate these more easily.
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