Thanks - your code may do the job! Will it work with version 2.10.33? I guess what would be nice would be for a page of lilypond to be "pasted" onto a blank LaTeX page by lilypond-book, but as you say LaTeX does the page filling.
-Alasdair On Jan 12, 2008 8:45 AM, Nicolas Sceaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le 11 janv. 08 à 22:31, Alasdair McAndrew a écrit : > > > I am using lilypond-book (with LaTeX) to collect several different > > lilypond files into one nice document - with title page, table of > > contents, and an introduction. However, the music never comes out > > properly on the page. Using lilypond on a single file, the music is > > nicely laid out, appropriate space between the systems, and the > > first system (there are only two staves - it's a collection of > > duets) indented for the instrument names. > > > > However, the same music in lilypond-book comes out either moved > > partly off the page, or on the page but with huge margins - and the > > first system not indented, but with the instrument names set to its > > left. (This accounts for the huge margin - there is white space > > beneath the instrument names for the rest of the page). Also, the > > systems are more crowded vertically then they are in plain lilypond. > > > > Clearly I need to do some fiddling to make lilypond's page > > formatter, and LaTeX's page formatter, go well together. Can > > anybody give me some advice on this? > > The vertical layout cannot be as finely tuned using lilypond-book and > LaTeX as > it can be using LilyPond only. Indeed, in the first case, LilyPond > layout engine > computes the line breaks, and LaTeX takes care of filling the pages. > Using LilyPond > only, the layout engine can compute line breaks together with page > breaks, and > space nicely the systems. > > You may get rid off LaTeX and use LilyPond only, for instance with the > help of > this titling stylesheet: > http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=368 > >
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