Thank you Timothy! Interesting... I totally missed this !
You're right, in my original file, I somehow missed adding the "4", but since it was the default value, i never noticed it. This also explains why it continued to work when I cut and pasted it into a new file for troubleshooting. Thanks so much! dirck ________________________________ From: Timothy Lanfear <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 2, 2025 11:33 AM To: Dirck Nagy <[email protected]>; Lilypond-User Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Pasting file into book results in changed music spacing On 02/08/2025 17:15, Dirck Nagy wrote: Hi Lilypond I am putting together a book of 6 short preludes. Each was originally engraved as a separate file. When I copy the files into bookparts, one of the files has changed music spacing. The other pieces seem OK. FYI, I am copying and pasting the elements of the score into the bookparts, because I havent figured out how to use \insert yet. Does anyone have any ideas where I should look to find the problem? I would be happy to send the files, but they are a thousand lines of code. I already tried setting the default paper size at the beginning of the book. Is there a "page margins" setting somewhere that could be Notice that the first note in the uppermost voice is dis4., whereas you need dis4. I suspect you did not assign an explicit duration to this note so the last duration of the preceding piece is used. When no music precedes a note, the default duration is a quarter note. -- Timothy Lanfear, Bristol, UK.
