Re: Even and odd page-margins

[Graham Percival]

On 22-May-06, at 7:31 PM, Gianluca D. wrote:

> I'd like to ask if anyone knows a way to set different margins for odd 
> and
> even pages with Lilypond. I've tried to find some information from the 
> manual
> of boh 2.8 and 2.9 version, but I couldn't find anything.

I don't believe that this is currently possible.

> I wouldn't like to use lilypond-book to achieve my goal, because I 
> think it
> would be a waste of resources to use two different programs to obtain a
> simple thing like this.

I know what you mean.  :)

> I'd be also interested in sponsoring this feature, eventually.

Please contact Han-Wen directly.

> Another feature I'd like to see in lilypond is a set of properties for 
> the
> first page of a score, or the page with title- something like
> "first-page-between-system-space" or "first-page-top-margin"; 
> actually, the
> first page usually needs specific tuning, which are often not suitable 
> for
> the rest of the score- so I've thought it would be pretty nice to have
> specific settings for the "title-page". I would be interested in 
> sponsoring
> this feature too.

This might be possible already with the new spacing code.  I haven't 
investigated the new possibilities yet though, so I stress the "might". 
 If you're interested, take a look at the page-* snippets in the 
Regression test document.

Cheers,
- Graham