Re: Trouble getting my page layout just right

2008-11-03 Thread Joe Neeman
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 21:53 +1100, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: In short, I'm stumped! Any ideas? So I had a look at the file you sent off-list and it turns out that the unevenness is being caused by poor extent-estimates. A workaround is to set VerticalAxisGroup #'minimum-Y-extent to #'(-4 . 4).

Re: Trouble getting my page layout just right

2008-10-31 Thread Joe Neeman
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 21:53 +1100, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:46:16AM +1100, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:00:17PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Hmm, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks it's strange! And it's nothing recent either---it's

Re: Trouble getting my page layout just right

2008-10-30 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:46:16AM +1100, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:00:17PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: Hmm, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks it's strange! And it's nothing recent either---it's been a problem since I first put the score together, which

Trouble getting my page layout just right

2008-10-29 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Hi folks, If you open http://web.netcall.com.au/horsburgh/Downloads/entertainer.pdf you'll find a score I did a few years back. I've never been happy with the way the systems are spaced on each page. If you look at the pages 4 and 8 you'll notice that the staves are far more spread out

Re: Trouble getting my page layout just right

2008-10-29 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I'm sure you have already tried \paper { annotate-spacing = ##t } to get some hints on what's going on. See 4.6.1 Displaying spacing in the Notation reference. Once difference I could notice between pages 3 and 4 is that you have a dynamic indication \mf for some staves on page 4, that you

Re: Trouble getting my page layout just right

2008-10-29 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:00:17PM +0100, Mats Bengtsson wrote: I'm sure you have already tried \paper { annotate-spacing = ##t } to get some hints on what's going on. See 4.6.1 Displaying spacing in the Notation reference. Once difference I could notice between pages 3 and 4 is that you