Dear Jonathan,
Thank you! This is learning curve for me. I really appreciate the gentle help for the Neophyte. Again, Thanks, Jeffrey A. Trimble Organist/Director of Music St. Paul Lutheran Church Warren, OH 330-394-5741 -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Yip <[email protected]> To: swellshoe <[email protected]> Cc: pf <[email protected]>; gregorio-users <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Nov 21, 2013 6:28 pm Subject: Re: [Gregorio-users] Margins help? Dear Jeff, You're loading the fullpage package after you've loaded the geometry package. Fullpage modifies the margins and thus overrides your geometry options. Comment out the fullpage line and try again. Best, Jonathan On Thu 21 Nov 2013 20:57:00 GMT, [email protected] wrote: > Thank you Pierre. Got there to that coding, but I could see not > change when the PDF file reproduced. The best I could do was to > change the paper size to make my score less "wider". Here's the > snippet of the code: > > % usual packages loading: > \usepackage{fontspec} > \usepackage{graphicx} % support the \includegraphics command and options > \usepackage[paperheight=10in, paperwidth=6.5in, > margin=0.25in]{geometry} % See geometry.pdf to learn the layout > options. There are lots. > %\geometry{paperwidth=5.5in} % or letterpaper (US) or a5paper or.... > \usepackage{gregoriotex} % for gregorio score inclusion > \usepackage{fullpage} % to reduce the margins > > As you can see the width and height worked, but LaTex ignored the > margins--it doesn't matter what margin params I use. I just ignores > the whole dang thing. I'm using TeXworks 2013 (Version 0.4.5 r1280) > if that is any help. Running on Windows 7. > > I commented out the geometry package since I overrode it able with the > paper height and width. Perhaps that is wrong, but it got me kind of > what I wanted. > > --Jeff > > Jeffrey A. Trimble > Organist/Director of Music > St. Paul Lutheran Church > Warren, OH > 330-394-5741 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pierre François <[email protected]> > To: gregorio-users <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, Nov 21, 2013 2:52 pm > Subject: Re: [Gregorio-users] Margins help? > > Dear Jeffrey > > Your reaction was predictible. Sorry to speak Sanskrit. We will keep > it to Latin. > > In order to produce a gregorian partition with Gregorio, you need two > input files: one written in Gabc and one written in LaTeX. I suppose > you have reached that level of understanding. If not, I will be more > explicit. The geometry package has to be included into the LaTeX file. > > Here is an example of a LaTeX file using the geometry package, taken > from http://svn.gna.org/svn/gregorio/trunk/examples/main-lualatex.tex: > % This is a simple template for a LuaLaTeX document using gregorio scores. > > \documentclass[11pt]{article} % use larger type; default would be 10pt > > % usual packages loading: > \usepackage{fontspec} > \usepackage{graphicx} % support the \includegraphics command and options > \usepackage{geometry} % See geometry.pdf to learn the layout options. There are lots. > \geometry{a4paper} % or letterpaper (US) or a5paper or.... > \usepackage{gregoriotex} % for gregorio score inclusion > \usepackage{fullpage} % to reduce the margins > > % to change the font to something better, you can install the kpfonts package (if not already installed). To do so > % go open the "TeX Live Manager" in the Menu Start->All Programs->TeX Live 2010 > > % here we begin the document > \begin{document} > > % The title: > \begin{center}\begin{huge}\textsc{Populus Sion}\end{huge}\end{center} > > % Here we set the space around the initial. > % Please report tohttp://home.gna.org/gregorio/gregoriotex/details for more details and options > \setspaceafterinitial{2.2mm plus 0em minus 0em} > \setspacebeforeinitial{2.2mm plus 0em minus 0em} > > % Here we set the initial font. Change 43 if you want a bigger initial. > \def\greinitialformat#1{% > {\fontsize{43}{43}\selectfont #1}% > } > > % We set red lines here, comment it if you want black ones. > \redlines > > % We set VII above the initial. > \gresetfirstlineaboveinitial{\small \textsc{\textbf{VII}}}{\small \textsc{\textbf{VII}}} > > % We type a text in the top right corner of the score: > \commentary{{\small \emph{Cf. Is. 30, 19 . 30 ; Ps. 79}}} > > % and finally we include the score. The file must be in the same directory as this one. > \includescore{PopulusSion.tex} > > \end{document} > If you want to modify the options provided by the package geometry, > you will have to change the red line in the preamble above by the blue > one below: > \usepackage[left=3in,right=2in,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry} > This means the left margin is 3 inches and the right one 2 inches. > > I hope this is clear enough. > > Regards. > > Pierre F. > > > On 11/21/2013 05:59 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> I did, and it made as much sense as sanskrit does to me. (NOT!) >> Sorry, I learn by good examples, even IBM 370 Assembler is easier >> than this. LOL >> >> Thanks for the help. >> >> Jeffrey A. Trimble >> Organist/Director of Music >> St. Paul Lutheran Church >> Warren, OH >> 330-394-5741 >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jacques Peron <[email protected]> >> To: swellshoe <[email protected]> >> Cc: Gregorio Users <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thu, Nov 21, 2013 10:42 am >> Subject: Re: [Gregorio-users] Margins help? >> >> Hello, >> >> You should look at the /geometry/ package (type /texdoc geometry/ in >> a terminal) ; it will let you change several dimensions. >> >> Sincerely yours, >> >> Fr. Jacques Peron + >> >> >> 2013/11/21 <[email protected]> >> >> I'm new to LaTex and I'm finding it daunting to get the Margins >> to change. Does anyone have a practical example that makes the >> margins larger than 1.5 in. default to something like 2 or 3 >> inches? Or vice versa? Or even different paper size? >> >> This is the most frustrating part--worse than the TeXworks issue >> with Mavericks. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> >> Jeffrey A. Trimble >> Organist/Director of Music >> St. Paul Lutheran Church >> Warren, OH >> 330-394-5741 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gregorio-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gregorio-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users > > > -- > Father Pierre FRANÇOIS (http://www.romanliturgy.org) > Bosmanslei 16 > B-2018 Antwerpen (Belgium) > mobile: +32 474 719 131 > phone: +32 3 237 63 96 > _______________________________________________ > Gregorio-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Gregorio-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
_______________________________________________ Gregorio-users mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/gregorio-users
