The linewidth is always around 190 mm (+-), so this my be the reason for LilyPonds default margins. I'd prefer letter format, but in Germany (Europe?) letter format paper is not easily available. I even more I like 9x12 inch (Breitkopf & Härtel), but even if I found paper in ths format, my printer will not take it. :-(
Thomas > > > From: Reinhold Kainhofer: > > > > On Mittwoch, 18. März 2009 12:29:42 Pekka Siponen wrote: > > > The default margins for a4 seem a little too narrow. The normal I > > > see in scores is about 2 cm wide. > > > > I concur. On most scores I have seen, the margins are larger than > > LilyPond's (although I have not explicitly measured them). > > I have! At one point I was frustrated by this very issue > and went through my score library with a ruler. Valentin > mentioned "precise" measurements, but to my surprise, > measured values from any one publisher deviated quite a > lot from score to score, sometimes from page to page. > I even recall a couple of instances where the line-width > at the top of a page was several mm shorter from the > line-width at the bottom of the page. Also, the printed > matter was not always consistently centered on the page. > Thus in most cases, my reported values for top- and > bottom-margin are the same (per publisher), representing a > vertically centered page. > > So, perhaps there can be no "precise" measurements; though > I tried to capture the average measurements as best as I > could. > > By the way, I can easily confirm the wide margins: > > Peters = 17.75 mm > Wiener UE = 20.75 mm > Henle = 21.25 mm > Schirmer = 21.25 mm > > > One interesting thing to note -- I compared the ratio of > paper-width to paper-height for each publisher, and found > that all had proportions much closer to the (short and fat) > "letter" ratio than to the (tall and skinny) "a4" ratio. > > w/h ratio: > > ...tall and skinny... > a4 = 0.70707 mm > 8.5x12 = 0.70833 mm > 9x12 = 0.75 mm > Peters = 0.75 mm > Henle = 0.75806 mm > Wiener UE = 0.76 mm > Schirmer = 0.764 mm > letter = 0.77273 mm > ...short and fat... > > ___________________________________________________________ > > Anyway, here are my results: > > Peters: > paper-width = 222 mm > paper-height = 297 mm > staff-height = 7 mm > line-width = 186.5 mm > top-margin = 10 mm > bottom-margin = 10 mm > > Henle: > paper-width = 235 mm > paper-height = 310 mm > staff-height = 7 mm > line-width = 192.5 mm > top-margin = 15 mm > bottom-margin = 15 mm > > Wiener Urtext Edition: > paper-width = 230 mm (232 including binding) > paper-height = 304 mm > staff-height = 6.25 mm > line-width = 188.5 mm > top-margin = 11 mm > bottom-margin = 19 mm > > Schirmer: > paper-width = 230 mm > paper-height = 301 mm > staff-height = 7 mm > line-width = 187.5 mm > top-margin = 13 mm > bottom-margin = 13 mm > > Hope this helps! > - Mark > > p.s. should we migrate this to bug- or -devel? > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user