Re: How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

2019-07-30 Thread Aaron Hill
On 2019-07-30 10:21 am, kimfierens wrote: Unfortunately none of your proposed solutions produced entirely satisfactory results. For some odd reason, the one note examples work pretty well, but as soon as more notes are added to a staff, the staffs are whacked out of alignment. It would be hel

Re: How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

2019-07-30 Thread Karlin High
On 7/30/2019 12:21 PM, kimfierens wrote: To be honest, it seems a bit disappointing that a sophisticated piece of software (which LilyPond obviously is) seems unable to accomplish what the 18th century engraver probably took no more than a ruler and some elbow grease. LilyPond probably CAN do i

Re: How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

2019-07-30 Thread kieren_macmillan kieren_macmillan
Hi all, Sorry I’m late to the thread — I’m in Edinburgh with my [Lilypond-engraved!] show at the Fringe. =) > Additionally, I find it difficult to get all the snippets equal width. Seems like all of that would be dead simple by packing each score in a \markup wrapper and then just placing them

Re: How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

2019-07-30 Thread kimfierens
Hi Urs and Alexander, Sorry about the late reply. I had some trouble getting LuaLaTeX set up properly. Unfortunately none of your proposed solutions produced entirely satisfactory results. For some odd reason, the one note examples work pretty well, but as soon as more notes are added to a staff,

Re: How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

2019-07-29 Thread Alexander Kobel
Hi Urs, hi Kim, On 29.07.19 11:10, Urs Liska wrote: > Hi Kim (?), > > 28. Juli 2019 22:59, "kimfierens" schrieb: > >> Hi everyone, I'm new to LilyPond, and I have a layout question for you. The >> title says it all basically: how do I get LilyPond to put a fixed distance >> between the upper pa

Re: How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

2019-07-29 Thread Urs Liska
Hi again, sorry for the noise (although it might have triggered some thoughts that may prove useful down the road), but I have just found a pretty simple solution for your case: { \omit Score.SystemStartBar \override Staff.StaffSymbol.Y-extent = #'(-5 . 15) c'1 } will make LilyPond belie

Re: How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

2019-07-29 Thread Urs Liska
Hi Kim (?), 28. Juli 2019 22:59, "kimfierens" schrieb: > Hi everyone, I'm new to LilyPond, and I have a layout question for you. The > title says it all basically: how do I get LilyPond to put a fixed distance > between the upper page edge and the top line of the first staff, regardless > of an

How to set a fixed distance between upper page edge and top line of first staff?

2019-07-28 Thread kimfierens
Hi everyone, I'm new to LilyPond, and I have a layout question for you. The title says it all basically: how do I get LilyPond to put a fixed distance between the upper page edge and the top line of the first staff, regardless of any stuff (such as notes on ledger lines) that might stick out above