Re: completely filling a page, but not too compact, how?

2022-08-19 Thread Knute Snortum
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 8:16 AM Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > > Hi Ralph, Lukas and David; > > Thank you all for your responses. > > I had no clue where to start on modifying the layout since there are > so many things to examine in the documentation regarding the layout. > > Now I can guess more

Re: completely filling a page, but not too compact, how?

2022-08-19 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
Hi Ralph, Lukas and David; Thank you all for your responses. I had no clue where to start on modifying the layout since there are so many things to examine in the documentation regarding the layout. Now I can guess more effectively for the next one that needs to be expanded/contracted. Th

Re: completely filling a page, but not too compact, how?

2022-08-19 Thread David Wright
On Fri 19 Aug 2022 at 09:32:45 (+0200), Lukas-Fabian Moser wrote: > What I didn't change: Classical convention would probably give the > final bar a length of only 4 (with fermata), not 1. But I wouldn't put > too much stock in this, I know that a crotchet final chord would > probably look strange,

Re: completely filling a page, but not too compact, how?

2022-08-19 Thread Lukas-Fabian Moser
Hi Ken, So I disabled all the forced line breaks. Now it consumes less than 3/4 of one page and is a little too dense to read on an iPad. I'd like to fill the first and only page. How to do this? For filling the page, you can do \paper {   ragged-last-bottom = ##f } In your case, this spr

Re: completely filling a page, but not too compact, how?

2022-08-18 Thread Ralph Palmer
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 7:06 PM Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > Maybe this engraved pdf is a better match to the Lilypond source... > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 4:02 PM Kenneth Wolcott > wrote: > > > > Hi; > > > > I have a piece of music that has forced line breaks that consumes > three pages. > > > > I