Re: Page layout frustration

[Joe Neeman]

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 14:15 +0100, address@hidden 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 second! :-(

No one seems to have mentioned yet that you can try setting
ragged-last-bottom to ##f in the paper block. This will prevent lilypond
from having non-full pages at the end of the score.

> 
> 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 ...
> 
> 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 :-)
> 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).
> 
> Cheers,
> Wol
> 
> 
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