Another way of changing the spacing before and after anything Lily does is to put a vspace Tax command. That's what I do: \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article} \usepackage{times} \usepackage{geometry} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \geometry{width=192mm, left=12mm, height=267mm, top=0mm} \input lilyponddefs \begin{document} \begin{center} \Huge{Sonata} \end{center} \vspace{-6mm} \large \begin{flushright} {\scshape Domenico Scarlatti\\K.39 L.391} \end{flushright} \vspace{-3mm} Allegro \vspace{-6mm} \footnotesize \input{K039.tex} \vspace{5mm} {\scshape Draft - Not for release.} \end{document}