RE: Page layout frustration (+ documentation note)

2006-05-31 Thread Fairchild
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 7:32 AM To: lilypond-user@gnu.org Subject: Re: Page layout frustration (+ documentation note) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread lilypond
I'm trying to fit a piece of music onto one page. By default, lily formats it as 11 systems, 10 on the first page, 1 on the second. So I told lily to fit it in 10 systems - which it nicely laid out as 9 on the first page, 1 on the second! :-( When I tell it to fit it in 9 systems, it finally puts

Re: Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread Stephen
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 8:15 AM I'm trying to fit a piece of music onto one page. By default, lily formats it as 11 systems, 10 on the first page, 1 on the second. So I told lily to fit it in 10 systems - which it nicely laid out as 9 on the first page, 1 on the

Re: Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread Walter Hofmeister
On 5/23/06 7:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to fit a piece of music onto one page. By default, lily formats it as 11 systems, 10 on the first page, 1 on the second. So I told lily to fit it in 10 systems - which it nicely laid out as 9 on the first page, 1 on the

Re: Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread Kieren Richard MacMillan
Walter wrote: annotate-spacing = ##t For someone as geeky and obsessive-compulsive as I, this is one of the coolest applications of technology that I've seen since http:// www.visualthesaurus.com. Way to go, Lilypond Team! Thanks, Kieren.

Re: Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread Richard Schoeller
Some things you might want to check out... 1. You really can tweak the margins. 2. In your paper block you can set between-system-padding . I find that setting to 2 or 3 can sometimes compress things enough, even 1. 3. You might want to look at how much padding you have on any rehearsal

Re: Page layout frustration

2006-05-23 Thread Joe Neeman
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 14:15 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to fit a piece of music onto one page. By default, lily formats it as 11 systems, 10 on the first page, 1 on the second. So I told lily to fit it in 10 systems - which it nicely laid out as 9 on the first page, 1 on the