Re: Page layout frustration

[Stephen]

From: <address@hidden>
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 second! :-(
>
> When I tell it to fit it in 9 systems, it finally puts it on one page,
> but it's all far too squashed. What I guess is happening is that it's
> putting the lily tag-line on the last page, and with both header and
> tagline there's only room for 9 systems.
>
> What's annoying though, is that even though I've set top margin to zero,
> there's loads of wasted space at the top of the page ... and I guess
> even if I set the lily tag-line to blank, it would still need space for
> it ...

I don't think so, I think putting 'tagline = ""' in the header works.

> How do I free up all that wasted header space or otherwise gain room to
> fit my part cleanly on one page? I'd rather not delete the tag line :-)

I often delete the tagline when, as you are trying to do, I am fitting the 
music on one page.

Did you really try puting 'topmargin = 2\mm' in the \paper block? It works 
for me. You can even set it to a negative number if you have to in order to 
get it high enough.

> but is there any way of simply making that not exist, either?
>
> I've also tried to look up the source code that actually lays out the 
> headers and
> footers, but I've ended up in a pile of Scheme I can't make head nor tail 
> of
> (titling.scm). If I need to drill deeper, can anybody give me any pointers 
> (I want
> to do things like redefining headers and footers so I get a band-style 
> title, when
> I've got multiple pages it puts the title as well as instrument on 
> subsequent
> sheets, etc etc).

I can't help you here, but you should attach the piece you are working on so 
we can see the details. The header ordinarily will not print on more than 
the first page.

Stephen

> Cheers,
> Wol