David, you wrote Thursday, November 19, 2015 3:14 PM
>I have finally got to the stage of tidying up the score I have been > working on. [snip] > For the first movement of the score, I have Staff.instrumentName defined > for each instrument, and this requires an indent of 16mm. However, in > subsequent movements I do not set Staff.instrumentName, so no indent is > required. > > The variable 'indent' is defined in a \paper block, and I now see that > the lowest level context that a \paper block can appear in is \bookpart. > > I could, of course, quite easily restructure the file so that each > movement is contained in a separate \bookpart, but this would mean that > each movement then starts on a new page. This is not what I want: I > prefer the movements to follow one another with no page break to > emphasize the integrity of the whole work. > > Is there a way round this problem? In other words, is there some way I > can force the first system of the 2nd and subsequent movements to be > printed with no indent, without each movement necessarily appearing on a > new page? indent can also be set in a \layout block, which is at \score level. Trevor _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user